ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SIMULACRUM
From Latin: likeness, from simulāre to imitate, from similis like.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SIMULACRUM»
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simulacrum in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
simulacrum and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Simulacra and Simulation
Moving away from the Marxist/Freudian approaches that had concerned him earlier, Baudrillard developed in this book a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notions of cultural production with notions of cultural ...
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Murakami Haruki: The
Simulacrum in Contemporary Japanese Culture
This book offers a new approach to dealing with Murakami's radical narrative project by demonstrating how his first and later trilogies utilize the structure of the simulacrum, a second-order representation, to develop a complex critique of ...
3
Phantom Communities: The
Simulacrum and the Limits of ...
Through his readings of these works, the author follows the transformations of the simulacrum, showing how its vicissitudes provide an optic for remapping the postmodern canon.
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Simulacrum America: The USA and the Popular Media
ROBERTA. MAIERHOFER. The. Nation. and. the. Void: Simulacrum. America. in.
an. American. Documentary. Film. BOTH JEAN BAUDRILLARD'S America (1986)
and Jon Jost's documentary film Uncommon Senses: Plain Talk & Common ...
Elisabeth Kraus, Carolin Auer, 2000
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History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: ...
The postmodern features of the late socialist simulacrum Jameson has
approached Postmodernism through its two distinctive features, space and time: "
the transformation of reality into images" and "the fragmentation of time into a
series of ...
Marcel Cornis-Pope, John Neubauer, 2004
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Body Fascism: Salvation in the Technology of Physical Fitness
'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 be properly said to be a
copy. It stands on its own as a copy without a model. Fredric Jameson cites the ...
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Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil
'Simulacrum' must be understood here in its strong sense: all the formal traits of a
truth are at work in the simulacrum. Not only a universal nomination of the event,
inducing the power of a radical break, but also the 'obligation' of a fidelity, and ...
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Between Deleuze and Derrida
In fact, the Derridean simulacrum is doubled between presence and non-
presence (1972a, 1945 1981a, 168). The non-presence of the Derridean
simulacrum (or of writing, the pharmakon), we might say, is singular and formless
(e.g., 1990a, ...
Paul Patton, John Protevi, 2003
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Encyclopedia of Postmodernism
368 simulacrum The philosopher Gilles Deleuze. under Klos- sowski's influence,
proposed a slightly different notion of the simulacrum in a number of seminal
texts written in the late l960s (notably "Plato and the Simulacrum" and Difference
...
Victor E. Taylor, Charles E. Winquist, 2003
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The Delirium of Praise: Bataille, Blanchot, Deleuze, ...
For an exceptional analysis of the workings of the simulacrum with respect to
Klossowski's fiction, see Scott Durham, Phantom Communities: The Simulacrum
and the Limits ofPostmodernism (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998), 26-
46, ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SIMULACRUM»
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simulacrum is used in the context of the following news items.
Simulacrum Posts Album Trailer
Personal attacks and/or excessive profanity will not be tolerated and such comments will be removed. This is not your personal chat room or forum, so please ... «Metal Underground, Jul 15»
H Simulacrum στο XANIaRT
Tο Μουσείο Σύγχρονης Τέχνης Χανίων - Ελαιουργείον παρουσιάζει την Εικαστική Ομάδα SIMULACRUM στην εικαστική έκθεση «ΜΕΤΡΟΠΟΛΙΣ - METROPOLIS» ... «Prisma News, Jun 15»
John Zorn: Simulacrum
Simulacrum features six compositions performed by Matt Hollenberg on guitar, Kenny Grohowski on drums, and the acclaimed John Medeski on the organ. «PopMatters, May 15»
Simulacrum Reveals "Sky Divided" Album Details
Fans of progressive metal are offered a real treat when Simulacrum release new concept album, "Sky Divided," through Inverse Records on the 28th of August, ... «Metal Underground, May 15»
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, one year later: “Nothing is certain, as …
... and are tormented if left floating, or cut off, if unable to package and compress our experience into some simulacrum of reality. How many times have we heard ... «Salon, Mar 15»
“We are All Viet Cong”
Baudillard's term simulacrum is helpful here: “…The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth—it is the truth which conceals that there is none.”. «CounterPunch, Jan 15»
A Ballroom on Ice in New York City
Attendees of the sixth annual Ice Ball, presented by The Simulacrum of Yore Society, skated in “Impressionist Formal” attire at the Bryant Park ice skating rink on ... «Wall Street Journal, Jan 15»
Bubba Gump Shrimp Co, restaurant review: A cavernous, deep-fried …
It's a cavernous, laminated, wipe-down, deep-fried, hokey simulacrum of a restaurant, sucking up shoals of tourists in the catering equivalent of industrial fishing. «The Independent, Dec 14»
Experimenta Recharge biennial of media art gives new insights into …
Their new commission Simulacrum continues the idea of their community participation project Faces of … that invites people from regional communities to have ... «The Guardian, Nov 14»
The Simulacra and Vortex of Virtual Reality: Varied Myths
“The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth. It is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.” — Ecclesiastes. Virtual Reality is ... «Mainstream, Nov 14»
