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	Simulacra and Simulation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Simulacra and Simulation (Simulacres et Simulation in French) is a philosophical treatise by Jean Baudrillard.
		Simulacra and Simulation is most known for its discussion of images, signs, and how they relate to the present day.
		This simulacra of the real surpasses the real world and thus becomes hyperreal, a world that is more real than real.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation (387 words)

	Simulacra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Quetzalcoatl's essay: Reality Or Simulacra Reality Or Simulacra is an essay, by Amedeo Felix, exploring postmodernism and notions of reality through the film Blade Runner and the literature of Philip K Dick.
		Simulacra and Simulation Discussion board for role-playing and fan fiction based on the series.
		Simulacra Romae Les capitals provincials romanes són una herència europea.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Simulacra.html (306 words)

	Jean Baudrillard - SIMULACRA AND SIMULATIONS - 1998
		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.
		The second inaugurates an age of simulacra and simulation, in which there is no longer any God to recognize his own, nor any last judgement to separate truth from false, the real from its art)ficial resurrection, since everything is already dead and risen in advance.
		His discourse concerns the code, that is the third-order simulacra, but it does so still according to "scientific" schemes of the second-order — objectiveness, "scientific" ethic of knowledge, science's principle of truth and transcendence.
	www.egs.edu /faculty/baudrillard/baudrillard-simulacra-and-simulations.html (6972 words)

	simulacra definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Simulacra - in the era of television - are copies of things that no longer have an original (or never had one to begin with).
		Henceforth, it is the map that precedes the territory - PRECESSION OF SIMULACRA - it is the map that engenders the territory....(Baudrillard, 1994, p.
		Advertising assists in constituting signs and codes that appear to represent social reality - in actuality, they represent an autonomous realm of hyperreality that has relatively little to do with the 'real' as we have come to define it.
	it.stlawu.edu /~global/glossary/simulacra.def.html (201 words)

	Quodlibet Online Journal: Rootlessness and Simulacra: The Loss and Recovery of Cultural Foundations - by Andrew M ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		That is to say, even if we are able to affirm that the simulacra is an adequate appraisal of modern (or "postmodern") culture, it is very difficult to ascertain why the simulacra exists and therefore what the outcome of the simulacra may be.
		Simulacra may be described as the charicature and reification of that which has no roots.
		Simulacra and rootlessness are not exactly the same thing, yet they point to the same problem that a human without roots experiences - hunger.
	www.quodlibet.net /tatusko-culture.shtml (4258 words)

	Simulacra \| Who we are (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Simulacra was founded by Patrick Towell in 1997 with the mission to use online services to support business and technical change in the education and culture sectors.
		Simulacra works with organisations at both the strategic and implementation levels to reach new audiences with relevant services.
		Simulacra is committed to a program of ongoing development and expansion of its product range, including advanced eLearning solutions, which puts the user at the centre of the development process and aligns this with the organisation's motivation to educate.
	www.simulacra.com /webdav/harmonise?Page/@id=1001&Section/@id=1021 (279 words)

	Simulacra \| Careers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Simulacra provides consultancy and technology solutions that show the way ahead in the worlds of e-government and online education and culture.
		Simulacra's offerings hinge on transforming information into knowledge by connecting people and information in ways that are meaningful.
		The web-based solutions that Simulacra builds are based on open standards and underpinned by solid information science principles, resulting in systems that both meet your objectives to enable business and technical change and prove genuinely useful and attractive to end users.
	www.simulacramedia.com /html/careers/index.html (585 words)

	Simulacra
		Simulacra as a theory was produced by Jean Baudrillard as a way to understand the post-modern world.
		Baudrillard claims that simulacra are reproductions of things that no longer have an original or never had one to begin with.
		Ideas about Simulacra are a facet of the postmodern notions of worlds without origins and a world "without depth, a world of surface.
	www.colostate.edu /Depts/Speech/rccs/theory47.htm (605 words)

	phorum - People's Topical Library - Re: The Simulacra Vs The Claws
		Furthermore, the humans in control would not have to fight and die in combat, knowing that the Simulacra were fighting on their behalf.
		The simulacra are more primitive because they require a factory of humans to make them, and instruct them what to do.
		The four new varieties were like the simulacras in appearance to gain the trust of humans and be led to bunkers and let more claws in, then kill.
	www.philipkdickfans.com /forums/read.php?f=3&i=175&t=174 (557 words)

	Baudrillard_Simulacra and Simulations
		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.
		Or is it volatilized into simulacra which alone deploy their pomp and power of fascination - the visible machinery of icons being substituted for the pure and intelligible Idea of God?
		His discourse concerns the code, that is the third-order simulacra, but it does so still according to "scientific" schemes of the second-order - objectiveness, "scientific" ethic of knowledge, science's principle of truth and transcendence.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/HPS/Baudrillard/Baudrillard_Simulacra.html (6962 words)

	Evil Demons, Saviors, and Simulacra in The Matrix (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is nevertheless the map that precedes the territory - the precession of simulacra - that engenders the territory...
		Its domain is now the simulacra, the map, because reality either no longer exists or has become so dry and apostatized that it is of interest to almost no one.
		The second inaugurates the era of simulacra and of simulation, in which there is no longer a God to recognize his own, no longer a Last Judgment to separate the false from the true, the real from its artificial resurrection, as everything is already dead and resurrected in advance.
	home.comcast.net /~crapsonline/Library/matrix.html (9367 words)

	Jean Baudrillard- Two Essays ("Simulacra and Science Fiction" and "Ballard's Crash")
		Their aim is Promethean: world-wide application, continuous expansion, liberation of indeterminate energy (desire is part of the utopias belonging to this order of simulacra).
		Currently, from one order of simulacra to the next, we are witnessing the reduction and absorption of this distance, of this separation which permits a space for ideal or critical projection.
		Like the Civil War in Philip K. Dick's The Simulacra; like a gigantic hologram in three dimensions, where fiction will never again be a mirror held to the future, but rather a desperate rehallucinating of the past.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/55/baudrillard55art.htm (4505 words)

	Introduction to Jean Baudrillard, Module on Simulacra and Simulation
		It is nevertheless the map that precedes the territory—precession of simulacra—that engenders the territory" ("The Precession of Simulacra" 1).
		According to Baudrillard, when it comes to postmodern simulation and simulacra, “It is no longer a question of imitation, nor duplication, nor even parody.
		Baudrillard illustrates how in such subtle ways language keeps us from accessing “reality.” The earlier understanding of ideology was that it hid the truth, that it represented a “false consciousness,” as Marxists phrase it, keeping us from seeing the real workings of the state, of economic forces, or of the dominant groups in power.
	www.cla.purdue.edu /academic/engl/theory/postmodernism/modules/baudlldsimulTnmainframe.html (850 words)

	Postmodernism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Post-modernism also elevated the importance of cinema in artistic discussions, placing it on a peer level with the other fine arts.
		This is both because of the blurring of distinctions between "high" and "low" forms, and because of the recognition that cinema represented the creation of simulacra which was later duplicated in the other arts.
		Davor Dzalto, for example, attacks the postmodern positions in art and culture generally, confronting a sustainable personal identity, together with notions of creativity, freedom and communion, to the postmodern deconstruction of any metaphysical identity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Postmodernism (6798 words)

	THE SIMULACRA
		In THE SIMULACRA, as the title indicates, Dick gives emphasis to another of his major themes, that of mechanical, electronic, or other simulations of organic life.
		These simulacra range from insect-sized "commercials," futuristic advertising devices which invade one's privacy, to der Alte, the "consort" of Nicole Thibodeaux, the latter having nominally ruled in the White House for almost a century, apparantly without aging.
		Nicole escapes, transported by Kongrosian's developing talent to a community of chuppers, a radiation-spawned subrace which is either a genetic reversal or the prospect of a regressive development of the future.
	www.philipkdickfans.com /pkdweb/THE%20SIMULACRA.htm (1029 words)

	The New MFN! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Our hero retrieves the program from his stash inside a hollowed-out book of philosophy by Jean Baudrillard entitled "Simulation and Simulacra." In a film chocked full of symbolism, this seemingly innocuous moment is actually one of the more blatant significations employed in The Matrix.
		Out of this basic truth, simulacra proceeds, the endless unfolding of copies of things until there is no longer a trace of anything original or until originality is trivialized.
		Of all the things the matrix is it comes down to the enslavement of the human race to a scheme (or simulacra) of technological systems.
	www.matrixfans.net /symbolism/philosophy.html (2959 words)

	The Simulacra by Philip K. Dick
		The Simulacra, the population is divided into two groups.
		In a subplot that could only have been dreamed up by PKD, Hermann Goering is brought from the Nazi Germany of the past by first-lady Nicole (as she' affectionately known) in an attempt to influence the outcome of WWII.
		This is one of the more intriguing parts of The Simulacra but unfortunately is not well developed in the story.
	www.philipkdickfans.com /simulacr.htm (445 words)

	Astral Simulacra
		By recalling memories and projecting them forth, energized by the appropriate emotions, the simulacra may be used as the carrier for a healing or empowerment servitor, which could, for example, be placed at an appropriate location within the body of the simulacra.
		The simulacra can be despatched, visualizing it as merging with the body of the target subject.
		By creating a simulacra out of memories and emotions, one might address the simulacra as though it was the person themselves, which can be a ritualised opportunity to tell the 'person' things that one needs to, to move on from that life experience.
	www.philhine.org.uk /writings/rit_simulacra.html (381 words)

	Amazon.ca: Simulacra and Simulation: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As the precession of simulacra unfurls throughout the course of the book, the reader is provided with Lacanian quilting points, clues which lead forever forward while constantly trying to refer to the past.
		The profundity of Baudrillard's "Simulacra and Simulation" as a complete set of essays, in total, and his 1983 essay "The Precession of Simulacra" lies in its simplicity.
		It is nevertheless the map that precedes the territory - precession of the simulacra - that engenders the territory, and if one must return to the fable, today it is the territory whose shreds slowly rot across the extent of the map.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0472065211 (2423 words)

	Kathryn Cornelius - Warhol as Simulacra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jean Baudrillard’s theories of simulacra and simulation have been applied to deconstruct mass-marketed products such as Pokémon and American Girl dolls, the fantasy world of Disney, and restaurant chains such as McDonald’s and Starbucks.
		The dolls (or, commodities) serve as simulacra to this simulated model of an “American girl.” The theory of simulacra seems to be applicable to most commodities that are fundamentally detached from “the real.” As Baudrillard asserts, reality has imploded and has been replaced by a hyperreality wherein the distinctions between real and unreal are blurred.
		We will examine the 20th century American POP artist Andy Warhol as a case study to determine the applicability of the simulacra theory to a human subject.
	www.georgetown.edu /users/kac42/warhol/page1.htm (437 words)

	Kevin Kelly -- Chapter 13: God Games
		The broadcasting machine says "Here is a simulacra of a ball: shiny blue, with a dimension of 50 centimeters, moving at this velocity and direction." The receiving machines says, "Umm yes, a simulacra of a bouncing ball.
		Rather than merely sending the data for the game's two-dimensional image, the sports station transmits a simulacra of the game; the stadium, players, and plays are abstracted into a model which can be compressed for transmission.
		Besides being able to "break the tyranny of video as prepackaged frames," the purpose of transmitting simulacra is primarily data compression.
	www.kk.org /outofcontrol/ch13-d.html (851 words)

	The Simulacra (Vintage) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		One of Lukes workers steals the papoola to impress Nichole at the White House only to uncover a sinister plot where all is not as it seems and the Presidential executive all might be actors and Simulacra robots.
		While all this is happening special mutant musician, Richard Kongrosian, who can play the keyboard with his mind, is having an emotional breakdown and believes he is becoming both invisible and smelly, only to start finding out things about himself that makes the government afraid of him.
		lt;br /gt; lt;br /gt;The Simulacra is strong on dialogue given that this is one of his Philip K. Dicks early works.
	www.wbthub.com /The-Simulacra-P-K-Dick-0375719261 (758 words)

	Rorschach Icons; Investigative Files (Skeptical Inquirer November 2004)
		Other secular simulacra include the “Face on Mars” (see Morrison 1988), as well as various shapes—a camel, butterfly, and a portrait of comedian Bob Hope—in a woman’s potato chip collection (Nickell 1998, 137).
		Religious simulacra are perhaps most often associated with Catholic or Orthodox tradition, wherein there is a special emphasis on icons and other holy images.
		Among the simulacra to get widespread and repeated media attention was one that appeared in late 1996 on the glass façade of a finance building in Clearwater, Florida.
	www.csicop.org /si/2004-11/i-files.html (2060 words)

	propagation of the simulacra in website design
		Because of course this obsession of mine has been to identify the presence of simulacra** continuing to bloat in many facets of our lives.
		Simulacra: I've come to find out that even those very very smart people I know think the term simulacra** is actually just a fancy way to refer to simulations.
		Simulacra are simulations which have come to replace that which they were originally created to simulate.
	www.sniffylinings.com /simulacra.html (688 words)

	Is there a word for such an anti-simulacra? \| Ask MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		That is, notions diametrically opposed to 'simulacra' - in that the entity has no referent to begin with...
		It would be correct to say that they are a sub-set of entities within the category of simulacra, but it seems something is missing to just label them simulacra with no original referents and then move on.
		A (Baudrillardian) simulacra doesn't obliterate an original so much as have no original, or no relation to the original, or no relation to a concept of an original.
	ask.metafilter.com /mefi/33093 (1703 words)

	: : SIMULACRA BIO - main : :
		in the U.K. Simulacra is electronic music- electronic in the sense that it uses synthesizers, samplers, and digital manipulation of sound.
		Despite the crossing of several sub-genres, there remain many constants that encompass the Simulacra sound, and a consistency is present from track to track.
		Higher Rhodes and Simulacra are appearing on Esoterica's Funky Breaks compilation out of the UK.
	www.visi.com /~simulacra/music.html (298 words)

	BOOKFORUM \| summer 2002
		Time Out of Joint is a dark- horse favorite set in a Cheeveresque '50s suburb and incorporating the flavor of Dick's realist novels (unpublished during his lifetime) into a pataphysical–Twilight Zone framework, marred only by a piss-poor ending.
		Clans is a cruel and antic psychiatric farce, written as if cribbed from the DSMR-IV; Simulacra, a murkily overpopulated Balzac-ian social panorama.
		Clans and Simulacra, if not exactly ideal entry points to the irv, don't shame it.
	www.bookforum.com /archive/sum_02/lethem.html (450 words)

	Simulacra and Simulation: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Simulacra and Simulation: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic
		Simulacra and Simulation (Simulacra et Simulation in French French language quick summary:
		A specific analogy that Baudrillard uses is a 'Borges fable'.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/si/simulacra_and_simulation.htm (426 words)

	Hokum-Balderdash Assay: The Incredible Likeness of Beings: Religious Simulacra and Pareidolia
		In my case, then, I perceived a simulacrum of Mary as I remembered her depicted by the Christian culture, and my perception of her likeness is attributable to the psychological process known as pareidolia.
		Hence, the most that people can claim when they report these apparitions is that they have seen what appears to be the likeness of their preconceived idea of the face or silhouette of Jesus, Mary, the Devil, God,....
		Other simulacra found on Mars include Kermit the Frog, Senator Ted Kennedy, an anteater, and a panda (More Faces on Mars).
	web.tri-isys.com /egtan/hokum/pareidolia.html (2490 words)

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