LARP Politics and Hyperreality

Sutherland, Paul

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Authors

Sutherland, Paul

Date

2024

Type

Non traditional textual works

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Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

School

School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/94985

Collection

Curtin Research Publications

Abstract

Describing political agitation as LARP suggests a more complicated relationship between images and reality than to simply decry these political agitations as naïve and disconnected – indicating a deeper and more considered set of logics and motivations. I argue that the complicated relationship between images and reality suggested by the phrase ‘LARP comes after farce’ can be understood by examining it according to Baudrillard’s notion of simulation and hyperreality.