Simulacra and Simulation

Jean Baudrillard's "Simulacra and Simulation" explores the collapse of distinctions between reality, representation, and simulation, analyzing hyperreality where signs and models replace any original, reshaping culture, politics, and perception.

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“The real consumer has become a consumer of illusions” (p.18)
“Fabrication of pseudo-needs” with the “reign of the autonomous economy” (p.19)
“Whatever is conscious wears out. What is unconscious remains unalterable” (p.19)
“The society of the spectacle, where the commodity contemplates itself in a world of its