Editing Simulacra and Simulation (section)

=== Phenomena ===
Baudrillard theorizes that the lack of distinctions between reality and simulacra originates in several phenomena:<ref>{{cite web
| url=https://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory/postmodernism/modules/baudrillardsimulation.html
| title=Modules on Baudrillard: On Simulation
| first=Dino
| last=Felluga
| work=Introductory Guide to Critical Theory
| date=2003-06-25
| access-date=2015-08-04}}</ref>
# Contemporary media including [[television]], [[film]], [[printing|print]], and the [[Internet]], which are responsible for blurring the line between products that are needed (in order to live a life) and products for which a need is created by commercial images.
# [[Exchange value]], in which the value of goods is based on money (literally [[denomination (money)|denominated]] [[fiat money|fiat currency]]) rather than usefulness, and moreover usefulness comes to be quantified and defined in monetary terms in order to assist exchange.
# Multinational [[capitalism]], which separates produced goods from the plants, minerals and other original materials and the processes (including the people and their cultural context) used to create them.
# [[Urbanization]], which separates humans from the [[Nature|nonhuman world]], and re-centres culture around productive [[throughput (business)|throughput]] systems so large they cause [[Marx's theory of alienation|alienation]].
# [[Language]] and [[ideology]], in which language increasingly becomes caught up in the production of power relations between social groups, especially when powerful groups institute themselves at least partly in monetary terms.