"Simulacra and Simulation" Quotes
A philosophical exploration of the hyperreality of modern society and the loss of meaning in a world saturated with simulations and images.
philosophy | 164 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth—it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.
The simulacrum is now a total operationality, a metastasis of the real into the hyperreal, clinging to all the flows of information, and annihilating all the referentials.
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.
Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real, when in fact all of Los Angeles and the America surrounding it are no longer real, but of the order of the hyperreal and of simulation.
The desert of the real itself has become hyperreal.
The simulacrum is never what hides the truth—it is truth that hides the fact that there is none. The simulacrum is true.
The simulacrum is now a total operational model, a metastable, but no longer actual, instance of the real.
