When Baudrillard writes that we live in an age of simulacra, he is not wrong. The phenomena he describes can be observed in corner video stores, supermarket aisles, and neighborhood gas stations as ...

(56; emphasis in original) These third order simulacra are the true simulacra in the strict and proper sense. Their rise and triumphal enthronement was, according to Baudrillard, irresistible. In ...

Neo keeps his discs and his profits in a hollowed-out copy of “Simulacra and Simulation,” the philosopher Jean Baudrillard’s 1981 treatise, a foundational text for “The Matrix.” ...

The book 'Simulacra and Simulation' by the French philosopher and sociologist Jean Baudrillard was published in 1981. It begins with a reference to a literary ...