simulacrum

is a copy of a copy such that the relation is so weak that it is no longer a copy.

A common definition of the simulacrum is a copy of a copy whose relation to the model has become so attenuated that it can no longer properly be said to be a copy. It stands on its own as a copy without a model. Fredric Jameson cites the example of photorealism. The painting is a copy not of reality, but of a photograph, which is already a copy of the original.9 (Massumi 1987 'realer than real' pdf).

is when things are bereft of their substance: History is without history, war is without warfare, sex is without sex, art is without art and so on.

In other words, we are caught in a moment when things are bereft of their substance: history is without history, war is without warfare, sex is without sex, art is without art and so on.

is, like photographs, that which is always already a copy of the original.

A common definition of the simulacrum is a copy of a copy whose relation to the model has become so attenuated that it can no longer properly be said to be a copy. It stands on its own as a copy without a model. Fredric Jameson cites the example of photorealism. The painting is a copy not of reality, but of a photograph, which is already a copy of the original. (Massumi 1987 'realer than real' pdf).

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