Editing Hyperreality (section)

===Simulacrum===
The [[simulacrum]] is "an image without resemblance"; as [[Gilles Deleuze]] summarized, it is the forsaking of "moral existence in order to enter into aesthetic existence".<ref>{{cite book|last=Deleuze|first=Gilles |chapter=Appendix 1: The Simulacrum and Ancient Philosophy |title=The Logic of Sense|year=1990|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0231059831|page=257}}</ref> However, Baudrillard argues that a simulacrum is not a copy of the real, but becomes—through sociocultural compression—truth in its own right. 

There are four steps of hyperreal reproduction:
# Basic reflection of reality, i.e. in immediate perception
# Perversion of reality, i.e. in representation
# Pretense of reality, where there is no model
# Simulacrum, which "bears no relation to any reality whatsoever"<ref>{{cite web|last=Mann|first=Doug|title=Jean Baudrillard|url=http://publish.uwo.ca/~dmann/baudrillard1.htm|work=A Very Short Introduction|access-date=16 March 2013}}</ref>