simulacra

Noun

The word is derived from simulacrum

Meaning

of Simulacrum

Phrases with the word

Examples

What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free? Emil Cioran

The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual. Michel De Certeau

It is trifling to believe in what you do or in what others do. You should avoid simulacra and even "realities"; you should take up a position external to everything and everyone, drive off or grind down your appetites, live, according to a Hindu adage, with as few desires as a "solitary elephant. Emil Cioran

In The Matrix, a copy of Jean Baudrillard 's Simulacra and Simulation is visible on-screen as the book used to conceal disks, and Morpheus quotes its phrase "desert of the real". citation The book was required reading for the actors prior to filming. Source: Internet

Baudrillard wrote in "Precession of the Simulacra": ::The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth—it is the truth which conceals that there is none. Source: Internet

If no one ever imagined, we’d be surrounded by simulacra of simulacra of simulacra on the web. Source: Internet

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