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2. Simulacra and Simulation - Wikipedia

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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.

3. Jean Baudrillard - Wikipedia

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   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, which is said to be crucial for understanding Baudrillard's later thought.

4. Simulacra (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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   A simulacra or simulacrum is a representation or imitation of a thing or person. Simulacra may also refer to: Simulacra (video game), a 2017 horror video game developed by Kaigan Games. Simulacrum (album), an album composed by John Zorn and released in 2015. Simulacra and Simulation, a 1981 philosophical treatise written by Jean Baudrillard.

5. Simulacrum - Wikipedia

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   According to Baudrillard, the Centre Pompidou is "a machine for making emptiness". [17] An everyday use of the simulacrum are the false facades, used during renovations to hide and imitate the real architecture underneath it. A Potemkin village is a simulation: a facade meant to fool the viewer into thinking that he or she is seeing the real ...

6. Map–territory relation - Wikipedia

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   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.

7. Hyperreality - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

8. Welcome to the Desert of the Real - Wikipedia

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   The book's title comes from a quote delivered by the character Morpheus in the 1999 film The Matrix: "Welcome to the desert of the real". [1] Both Žižek's title and the line from The Matrix refer to a phrase in Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation. [2]

9. Crash (Ballard novel) - Wikipedia

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   Jean Baudrillard wrote an analysis of Crash in Simulacra and Simulation in which he declared it "the first great novel of the universe of simulation". He made note of how the fetish in the story conflates the functionality of the automobiles with that of the human body and how the characters' injuries and the damage to the vehicles are used as ...