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Simulacra and Simulation (French: Simulacres et Simulation) is a 1981 philosophical treatise by the philosopher and cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard, in which he seeks to examine the relationships between reality, symbols, and society, in particular the significations and symbolism of culture and media involved in constructing an understanding of shared existence.
Baudrillard was born in Reims, northeastern France, on 27 July 1929.His grandparents were farm workers and his father a gendarme.During high school (at the Lycée at Reims), he became aware of 'pataphysics, a parody of the philosophy of science, via philosophy professor Emmanuel Peillet (1914-1973), which is said to be crucial for understanding Baudrillard's later thought.
The postmodern semiotic concept of hyperreality was contentiously coined by Baudrillard in Simulacra and Simulation (1981). [3] Baudrillard defined "hyperreality" as "the generation by models of a real without origin or reality"; [4] and his earlier book Symbolic Exchange and Death. Hyperreality is a representation, a sign, without an original ...
The rise of electronic media and Jean Baudrillard's concept of simulacra further complicates the map-territory distinction. In Simulacra and Simulation, Baudrillard argues that in the modern age, simulations precede and even replace reality: Today abstraction is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror, or the concept.
Simulacra and Simulation, a 1981 philosophical treatise by Jean Baudrillard This page was last edited on 21 May ...
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William James, Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking, 1907; ... Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 1981; Critical theory and Marxism
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