Simulacra and simulation
By: by Jean Baudrillard ; translated by Sheila Faria Glaser.
Series: The Body, in theory
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
Subjects: Resemblance (Philosophy); Reality
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The Precession of Simulacra
pagenum: 1; title: History: A Retro Scenario
pagenum: 43; title: Holocaust
pagenum: 49; title: The China Syndrome
pagenum: 53; title: Apocalypse Now
pagenum: 59; title: The Beaubourg Effect: Implosion and Deterrence
pagenum: 61; title: Hypermarket and Hypercommodity
pagenum: 75; title: The Implosion of Meaning in the Media
pagenum: 79; title: Absolute Advertising, Ground-Zero Advertising
pagenum: 87; title: Clone Story
pagenum: 95; title: Holograms
pagenum: 105; title: Crash
pagenum: 111; title: Simulacra and Science Fiction
pagenum: 121; title: The Animals: Territory and Metamorphoses
pagenum: 129; title: The Remainder
pagenum: 143; title: The Spiraling Cadaver
pagenum: 149; title: Value's Last Tango
pagenum: 155; title: On Nihilism
pagenum: 159