Jean Baudrillard

Such is simulation, insofar as it is opposed to representation. Representation stems from the principle of the equivalence of the sign and of the real (even if this equivalence is Utopian, it is a fundamental axiom). Simulation, on the contrary, stems from the Utopia of the principle of equivalence, from the radical negation of the sign as value, from the sign as the reversion and death sentence of every reference. Whereas representation attempts to absorb simulation by interpreting it as a false representation, simulation envelops the whole edifice of representation itself as a simulacrum.
Such would be the successive phases of the image:
it is the reflection of a profound reality;
it masks and denatures a profound reality;
it masks the absence of a profound reality;
it has no relation to any reality whatsoever;
it is its own pure simulacrum.

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  1. shinichi Post author

    ディシミュレは、「ある」のを「ない」ように見せること。隠すこと。

    シミュレは、「ない」のに「ある」ように見せること。例として偽装することなどがあげられる。サッカーで、相手から反則を受けていないのに、受けたかのように振る舞うのも、シミュレだ。

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