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Cover of: Simulacra and simulation by Jean Baudrillard
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Cover of: Simulacra and simulation by Jean Baudrillard

Simulacra and simulation
by Jean Baudrillard ; translated by Sheila Faria Glaser.

Published by University of Michigan Press in Ann Arbor .
Written in English.

First Sentence

If once we were able to view the Borges fable in which the cartographers of the Empire draw up a map so detailed that it ends up covering the territory exactly (the decline of the Empire witnesses the fraying of this map, little by little, and its fall into ruins, though some shreds are still discernible in the deserts - the metaphysical beauty of this ruined abstraction testifying to a pride equal to the Empire and rotting like a carcass, returning to the substance of the soil, a bit as the double ends by being confused with the real through aging) - as the most beautiful allegory of simulation, this fable has now come full circle for us, and possesses nothing but the discrete charm of second-order simulacra.

Table of Contents

The Precession of Simulacra 1
History: A Retro Scenario 43
Holocaust 49
The China Syndrome 53
Apocalypse Now 59
The Beaubourg Effect: Implosion and Deterrence 61
Hypermarket and Hypercommodity 75
The Implosion of Meaning in the Media 79
Absolute Advertising, Ground-Zero Advertising 87
Clone Story 95
Holograms 105
Crash 111
Simulacra and Science Fiction 121
The Animals: Territory and Metamorphoses 129
The Remainder 143
The Spiraling Cadaver 149
Value's Last Tango 155
On Nihilism 159

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Series The Body, in theory

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class 194
Library of Congress BD236 .B3813 1994

The Physical Object

Pagination 164 p. ;
Number of pages 164

ID Numbers

Open Library OL1112526M
Internet Archive simulacrasimula000baud
ISBN 10 0472095218, 0472065211
LC Control Number 94038393
Library Thing 44427
Goodreads 865396 22613

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