In an AI-saturated age, recognizing this dynamic holds liberating potential. Witnessing AI mimic human desire—impeccably, yet ...

When Baudrillard writes that we live in an age of simulacra, he is not wrong. The phenomena he describes can be observed in corner video stores, supermarket aisles, and neighborhood gas stations as ...

To say that the famous pessimist Augustine wrote prolifically because of his hope in the power of the word is not to speak ...

(56; emphasis in original) These third order simulacra are the true simulacra in the strict and proper sense. Their rise and triumphal enthronement was, according to Baudrillard, irresistible. In ...

Neo keeps his discs and his profits in a hollowed-out copy of “Simulacra and Simulation,” the philosopher Jean Baudrillard’s 1981 treatise, a foundational text for “The Matrix.” ...

From Copy to Hyperreality—Baudrillard's Simulacra But what happens when imitation breaks free of desire entirely? French sociologist Jean Baudrillard’s concept of simulacra steps in.