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Simulacrum Quotes

Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible.

Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible.

Jean Baudrillard
Real, Illusion, Simulacrum
Jean Baudrillard (1994). “Simulacra and Simulation”, p.19, University of Michigan Press

What I am, I don't know. I am the simulacrum of myself.

Jean Baudrillard
Simulacrum, Knows
"Jean Baudrillard" by Steven Poole, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2007.

The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth--it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.

Jean Baudrillard
Simulacrum
Jean Baudrillard, Mark Poster (1988). “Selected Writings”, p.166, Stanford University Press

But what if God himself can be simulated, that is to say can be reduced to signs that constitute faith? Then the whole system becomes weightless, it is no longer anything but a gigantic simulacrum - not unreal, but simulacrum, that is to say never exchanged for the real, but exchanged for itself, in an uninterrupted circuit without reference or circumference.

Jean Baudrillard
Real, What If, Simulacrum

Literature itself is a species of code. You line up symbols and create a simulacrum of life.

Marcel Theroux
Literature, Lines, Simulacrum
Marcel Theroux (2013). “Strange Bodies”, p.74, Faber & Faber

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