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'' Simulacra and Simulation'' is most known for its discussion of images, Signs , and how they relate to the present day. Baudrillard claims that our society has replaced all reality and meaning with symbols and signs, and that in fact all that we know as real is actually a simulation of reality. The simulacra that Baudrillard refers to are signs of culture and media that create the reality that we perceive. Baudrillard describes a world saturated by imagery, infused with media, sound, and advertising. This simulacra of the real surpasses the real world and thus becomes hyperreal, a world that is more real than real. It presupposes and precedes the real. In this world an apathy and melancholy permeate and begin to erode Nietsche's feeling of ''ressentiment''. A specific analogy that Baudrillard uses is a fable derived from the work of Jorge Luis Borges . In it, a great Empire created a map that was so detailed it was as large as the Empire itself. The actual map grew and decayed as the Empire itself conquered or lost territory. When the Empire crumbled, all that was left was the map. In Baudrillard's rendition, it is the map that we are living in, the simulation of reality, and it is reality that is crumbling away from disuse. '' The Matrix '', a popular sci-fi film, makes many connections to ''Simulacra and Simulation''. In fact, the principal character of ''The Matrix'', Neo, can be seen with a copy of ''Simulacra and Simulation'', although the book in ''The Matrix'' was designed with the chapter "On Nihilism" to be in the middle, and not at the end where it is located in the real book. Morpheus also refers to the real world outside of the Matrix as the "desert of the real", a direct reference to Baudrillard's work. In the original script, Morpheus referenced Baudrillard's book specifically. In an interview, Baudrillard claimed that "The Matrix" has nothing to do with his work {Link without Title} . EXTERNAL LINKS
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