Simulacres et Simulation
Simulacres et Simulation is a book published in French in 1981 by the French philosopher and sociologistJean Baudrillard. He developed hissimulation theory, which alreadyplayed an important rolein his workThe Symbolic Exchange and Deathfrom 1976.
Simulacres et Simulation consists of a collection of various short texts. Above all in the first chapter, which was given in German translation as «Precession of the Simulakra», he reflects with the terms simulacrum and simulation . Baudrillard examines the relationships between reality, symbols and society. He defines simulacres as copies that represent things that never existed or that are no longer original. He defines simulation as an imitation of a real process. These considerations are particularly important for media theory if one understands the modern mass media with Baudrillard as the area where words and images only stand for themselves and no longer have any reference.
credentials
- In the film Matrix , Neo's hiding place for software in his apartment is the book Simulacres et Simulation, which examines the relationship between reality, symbols and society and thus shows the subject of the film right from the start. The book is opened in the film at the chapter Nihilism .
expenditure
- Jean Baudrillard, Simulacres et Simulation , Paris: Éditions Galilée 1981
- Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation , engl. Translation by Sheila Faria Glaser, The University of Michigan Press 1994
Individual evidence
- ^ In the German partial edition by Jean Baudrillard: Agonie des Realen. Translated from the French by Lothar Kurzawa and Volker Schaefer, Merve-Verlag, Berlin 1978