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In Latin this word denoted a material representration or image, usually a deity.
==Baudrillard==The term ahs has been given a new importance by [[Baudrillard]]'s account of postmodernity.
A discussion of the role of the simulacrum in Greek and Roman theories of representation can be found in the Appendices to [[Deleuze]]'s ''Logic of Sense'' (1969).
He traces a series of [[stage]]s in its emergence.
===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]].
===Second Order====
With the mass production of industrial objects in [[Benjamin]]'s 'era of mechanical reproduction', second order [[simulacra]] predominated as 'originals' lost their mystic [[aura]].
===Third Order===The third order [[simulacra]] of [[postmodernity]] have no relation to [[reality]] whatsoever, and are their own pure [[simulacrua]] or imitations of imitations.
===Disneyland Example===
The ultimate [[simulacra]] is Disneyland.
According to [[Baudrillard]], Disneyland is presented as imaginary - or simulates its own imaginary nature - in order to make us believe that the rest of America is real rather than something belonging to the order of [[simulation]] and [[hyperreality]].
==See Also==
* [[Image]]
* [[Spectacle]]
* [[Postmodernity]]
* [[Reality]]
* [[Simulation]]
* [[Hyperreality]]
* [[Sign]]
* [[Benjamin]]
* [[Baudrillard]]
* [[Image]]
==References==
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[[Category:PsychoanalysisPostmodernity]][[Category:Postmodern theory]][[Category:Critical theory]]
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