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In [[Latin ]] this [[word ]] denoted a [[material ]] representration or image, usually a deity.

A discussion of the role of the simulacrum in Greek and Roman theories of representation can be found in the Appendices to ==Baudrillard==The term has been given a new importance by [[DeleuzeBaudrillard]]'s ''Logic account of Sense'' (1969)postmodernity.

A [[Baudrillarddiscussion]] of the [[role]]'s most systematic expositions of his theory the simulacrum in Greek and Roman theories of simulacra are to [[representation]] can be found in his the Appendices to [[Deleuze]]'s 'Symbolic Exchange and Death'' (1976) and ''Simulacra and Simulations[[Logic]] of [[Sense]]'' (19811969).

 For [[Baudrillard]], a [[simulacrum]] is a reproduction of an [[object]] or [[event]] characteristic of a specific stage in the [[history ]] of the [[image]] or [[sign]].

===First Order===Whereas the [[mageimage]] was once a [[reflection]] of a basic [[reality]], as in the [[feudal order]] in which [[sign]]s were clear indications of hierarchical status, it came to mask or [[pervert]] a basic [[reality]] when, in the baroque period that privileged [[artifice]] and [[counterfeit]] over [[natural ]] [[sign]]s, [[arbitrary ]] or artificial [[sign]]s began to proliferate. Such [[sign]]s are described as first order [[simulacra]].   With the mass production of industrial objects in [[Benjamin]]'s 'era of mechanical reproduction', second order [[simulacra]] predominated as 'originals' lost their mystic [[aura]]. Such [[simulacra]] signal the [[absence]] of a basic [[reality]]. 

==Third Order==The third order Such [[simulacra]] [[signal]] the [[absence]] of a basic [[postmodernityreality]].

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