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title: Simulacrum
date: 2006-03-10T16:54:04Z
modified: 2006-03-10T16:54:04Z
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  - General
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  - Postmodernism
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> The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth – it is the truth which conceals that there is none.
> The simulacrum is true.
> 
> _Ecclesiastes_

> Abstraction today is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror or the concept.
> Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or a substance. It is the
> generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal. The territory no
> longer precedes the map, nor survives it. Henceforth, it is the map that precedes the
> territory – PRECESSION OF SIMULACRA – it is the map that engenders the
> territory and if we were to revive the fable today, it would be the territory whose
> shreds are slowly rotting across the map. It is the real, and not the map, whose
> 
> _Jean Baudrillard_