Jean Baudrillard

Simulacra and Simulations

 

from Jean Baudrillard, Selected Writings, ed. Mark Poster (Stanford;Stanford University Press, 1988), pp.166-184.

The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth--it is the truthwhich conceals that there is none.

The simulacrum is true.

 

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