LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY IN MODERNITY
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“Something that replaces reality with its representation”
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“A stable referent to a knowable original cultural artifact”
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“An exact imitation of the material world”
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“A basic affirmation of everyday reality”
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Detailed explanation-1: -SIMULACRUM (simulacra): Something that replaces reality with its representation. Jean Baudrillard in “The Precession of Simulacra” defines this term as follows: “Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being, or a substance.
Detailed explanation-2: -Simulacra are copies that depict things that either had no original, or that no longer have an original. Simulation is the imitation of the operation of a real-world process or system over time.
Detailed explanation-3: -There is no longer any distinction between reality and its representation; there is only the simulacrum. Baudrillard points to a number of phenomena to explain this loss of distinctions between “reality” and the simulacrum: 1) Media culture.