Editing Simulacra and Simulation (section)

===Definition===
{{blockquote|...The [[simulacrum]] is never that which conceals the truth—it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.<ref name="isbn0-7456-0586-9">{{Cite book
  | title=Selected writings
  |author1=Poster, Mark |author2=Baudrillard, Jean | publisher=Polity
  | location=Cambridge, UK
  | year=1988
  | isbn=0-7456-0586-9}}</ref>
}}

''Simulacra and Simulation'' is most known for its discussion of symbols, signs, and how they relate to contemporaneity (simultaneous existences).<ref>{{cite journal|first=Ross|last=Abbinnett|title=The Spectre and the Simulacrum: History after Baudrillard|journal=Theory, Culture & Society|publisher=[[SAGE Publications]]|location=Thousand Oaks, California|volume=25|issue=6|date=1 November 2008|pages=69–87|doi=10.1177/0263276408095545|s2cid=146741752 }}</ref> Baudrillard claims that current [[society]] has replaced all reality and meaning with [[symbol]]s and [[Sign (semiotics)|signs]], and that human experience is a simulation of reality.<ref>{{cite journal|first=Douglas|last=Kellner|title=Baudrillard, Semiurgy, and Death|journal=Theory, Culture & Society|publisher=[[SAGE Publications]]|location=Thousand Oaks, California|volume=4|issue=1|date=1 February 1987|pages=125–146|doi=10.1177/026327687004001007|s2cid=144010126 }}</ref> Moreover, these simulacra are not merely mediations of reality, nor even deceptive mediations of reality; they are not based in a reality nor do they hide a reality, they simply hide that nothing like reality is relevant to people's current understanding of their lives.{{citation needed|date=November 2019}} The simulacra that Baudrillard refers to are the significations and symbolism of [[culture]] and [[media (communication)|media]] that [[Social constructivism|construct]] perceived reality, the acquired understanding by which human life and shared existence are rendered legible. (These ideas had appeared earlier in [[Guy Debord]]'s 1967 ''[[The Society of the Spectacle]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm | date=1967| title=Society of the Spectacle | publisher=marxists.org|accessdate=28 May 2019}}</ref>) Baudrillard believed that society had become so saturated with these simulacra and human life so saturated with the constructs of society that all meaning was becoming meaningless by being infinitely mutable; he called this phenomenon the "precession of simulacra".<ref>{{cite book|first=Jean|last=Baudrillard|author-link=Jean Baudrillard|title=Simulations|url=https://archive.org/details/simulations0000baud|url-access=registration|publisher=[[Semiotext(e)]]|location=Los Angeles, California|date=1983|isbn=978-0936756028|pages=[https://archive.org/details/simulations0000baud/page/1 1]–30}}</ref>