Imaginarios sociales de Perú: simulación y simulacro en la publicidad de la marca de refrescos Inca Kola

This essay addresses the issue of social imaginaries in Peru and their relationship with the advertising of the Inca Kola soft drink brand, focusing on the concepts of simulation and simulacrum. Social imaginaries are shared representations that influence the way people perceive their social reality...

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Autor: Rojas Virijivich, Rodolfo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:Perú
Institución:Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Repositorio:PUCP-Institucional
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.pucp.edu.pe:20.500.14657/196669
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/conexion/article/view/28009/26004
https://doi.org/10.18800/conexion.202302.007
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Social imaginaries
Simulation
Simulacrum
Advertising
Inca Kola
Peru
Imaginarios sociales
Simulación
Simulacro
Publicidad
Perú
https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#5.09.01
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Sumario:This essay addresses the issue of social imaginaries in Peru and their relationship with the advertising of the Inca Kola soft drink brand, focusing on the concepts of simulation and simulacrum. Social imaginaries are shared representations that influence the way people perceive their social reality, and are expressed through stories, legends, myths and images. On the other hand, simulation refers to the creation of copies without an original, images of things that do not exist, and simulacrum implies the disturbance and challenge of reality itself. The reflection seeks to establish a link between these concepts and analyze how Inca Kola’s advertising constructs social imaginaries based on simulations, instead of reality. This raises the problem of idealizing aspects of reality that cannot be fulfilled, since simulation originates in the utopia of equivalence. According to Baudrillard (1994/1998, Chapter 2), we live in a society where reality and representations are confused, and simulation is based on the belief that everything can be replaced by its image.