Simulacres et simulation Baudrillard, Jean

In this essay, Jean Baudrillard takes a critical look at the artifacts of the contemporary world. From Californian amusement parks and their promise to resurrect childhood at the Forum des Halles Paris, "sarcophagus of the merchandise", passing through biotechnological prowess such as cloning, the author questions our relationship to the all-out reproduction of images and things. He then sees a new regime of simulacs in which the real has not ended to be abolished. "This race to real and realistic hallucination is without outcome because, when one object is exactly like another, it is not exactly, it is a little more so. There is never any similarity, nor is there any accuracy. What is already too exact, only is exact what approaches the truth without pretending to be".