Simulation and Simulacra
Simulation and Simulacra When something is simulated, it is not real, it is copied, or inauthentic. ... Ideas about simulacra are part of the postmodern notion of worlds without origins and a world "without depth.” French social theorist Jean Baudrillard’s concept of simulation is the creation of the real through conceptual models which have no connection or origin in reality. ... Instead, were hooked into a simulation of reality, made up of television, the Internet, and other forms of hyperrealism.