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- noun Plural of
simulacrum .
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- noun Plural form of
simulacrum .
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Examples
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The power of simulacra is such that they essentially implicate at once the object = x in the unconscious, the word =
Notes on 'Repetition, Representation and Revolution: Deleuze and Blake's _America_' 2008
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The problem really arises with what Jean Baudrillard called simulacra, artificial representations of reality that through pop culture mediums like television and film, begin to actually replace the real.
Tom Morris: Interview With a Philosopher: On The Vampire 2010
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The public has its attention focused on the Game, the spectacle, that is, the simulacra.
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The theory of “replicas” (also called simulacra, or shadowy images) was the idea contained in the frag - ment of Leucippus, quoted above; but one had to admit that the replicas emitted from a body (in all directions) had to contract along the way, while remaining similar to themselves, until they became small enough to pass through the pupil of an eye wherever it might be.
OPTICS AND VISION VASCO RONCHI 1968
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We can take this idea of postmodernity a little deeper though, overlay Baudrillard's notion of "simulacra", his post-structuralist position that language itself simply doesn't sustain such authoritative readings.
Archive 2008-08-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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But at the same time, I can't help but relate its title to Burroughs 'THE NAKED LUNCH, and parse it as an image of confrontation with reality, an image of that moment of recognition that the "simulacra" of a meal is actually the "objective reality" of a dead animal. posted by Hal Duncan | 5: 02 AM
Archive 2008-08-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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Baudrillard argued that today's society is constructed around "simulacra," which then become reality.
Janine R. Wedel: Shadow Elite : Truthiness, Porn and the Real Problem With Reality TV Janine R. Wedel 2010
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We can take this idea of postmodernity a little deeper though, overlay Baudrillard's notion of "simulacra", his post-structuralist position that language itself simply doesn't sustain such authoritative readings.
Notes on Strange Fiction: Postmodern(ism) Hal Duncan 2008
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Baudrillard argued that today's society is constructed around "simulacra," which then become reality.
Janine R. Wedel: Shadow Elite : Truthiness, Porn and the Real Problem With Reality TV Janine R. Wedel 2010
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Baudrillard argued that today's society is constructed around "simulacra," which then become reality.
Janine R. Wedel: Shadow Elite : Truthiness, Porn and the Real Problem With Reality TV Janine R. Wedel 2010
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