Simulacra and Simulation
by Jean Baudrillard · University of Michigan Press
Baudrillard argues that signs and models have replaced the reality they once represented, leaving a hyperreal culture of simulations; the essays supply the vocabulary — simulacrum, hyperreality, precession of models — used across later media theory.
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