simulacral

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• simulacre — simulacral /sim yeuh lay kreuhl/, adj. /sim yeuh lay keuhr/, n. Archaic. simulacrum. [1325 75; ME < MF < L simulacrum SIMULACRUM] * * * …   Universalium

• simulacrum —   n. (pl. ra) image; semblance; vague likeness; sham.    ♦ simulacral, a …   Dictionary of difficult words

• America —    by Diane Rubenstein   Baudrillard offers an assessment of the centrality of America for his work in an interview: All of the themes that I first examined in my previous books suddenly appeared in America, stretching before me in concrete forms …   The Baudrillard dictionary

• film + cinema —    by Laurence Simmons   In an early scene of The Matrix (Wachowski and Wachowski, 1999), hacker Thomas Anderson (a.k.a. Neo played by Keanu Reeves) opens a copy of Baudrillard s Simulacra and Simulation (1994a [1981]) to a chapter entitled On… …   The Baudrillard dictionary

• politics —    by Diane Rubenstein   One of the most common misconceptions concerning Baudrillard is that he has little to offer political theory, that he is an irresponsible or even a reactionary voice when it comes to issues of multiculturalism, feminism… …   The Baudrillard dictionary

• real —    by Andrew Wernick   If the real is one of Baudrillard s most elusive concepts this is in part because whatever the real might refer to it has itself become elusive. The real , he insists, has disappeared, and that is the mystery. Why, he asks …   The Baudrillard dictionary

• simulation —    by Andrew Wernick   Simulation is a key Baudrillardian concept, and for many the one by which he is best known. In Latin, simulare (from the same Indo European root as same in English) means to copy. In modern English, simulation came to have… …   The Baudrillard dictionary