The Supreme Illusion of Real Time as the Limit of All Accelerations

The reflection on Real Time represents the culmination of a theoretical investiga- tion and, moreover, the most significant testament that Jean Baudrillard has left us. Upon closer inspection, one of the fundamental trajectories followed by his philosophical discourse is the transition from the centrality of space (Barile 2012) – from the “System of Objects” (1972) to Disneyland in “Simulacra and Simula- tions” – to that of time. In addressing this question, Baudrillard exhibits an interest typical of an epistemologist. In contrast to M. McLuhan, who was much more fas- cinated by the subatomic physics of Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg, the French philosopher expresses himself mostly as an attempt to construct a sort of relativistic socio-anthropology.