Postmodernism

In essence, it stems from a recognition that reality is not simply mirrored in human understanding of it, but rather, is constructed as the mind tries to understand its own particular and personal reality. For this reason, postmodernism is highly sceptical of explanations which claim to be valid for all groups, cultures, traditions, or races, and instead focuses on the relative truths of each person. In the postmodern understanding, interpretation is everything; reality only comes into being through our interpretations of what the world means to us individually. Postmodernism relies on concrete experience over abstract principles, knowing always that the outcome of one's own experience will necessarily be fallible and relative, rather than certain and universal.

Jean Baudrillard

He claimed that the 9/11 attacks were the absolute event, that we only understand them in terms of the media images, which we have been bombarded with. He argued that the events were as much television as real. We cannot distinguish the representation of the events on television from the actual events. He calls this state hypereality which means that we can’t tell the difference from reality to fantasy, for example the great special effects seen now in action movies. He also believed in simulacrum which is an image or representation of someone or something.