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It develops the idea of the precession of simulacra, where the map (model) precedes and produces the territory, dissolving the sovereign difference between real and representation. Chapters address media meaning’s implosion, advertising as an absolute system of signs, and the operational logic of simulation that replaces imitation with substitution.","TABLE OF CONTENTS  \nI. The Precession of Simulacra  \nII. History: A Retro Scenario  \nIII. Holocaust  \nIV. The China Syndrome  \nV. Apocalypse Now  \nVI. The Beaubourg Effect : Implosion and Deterrence  \nVII. Hypermarked and Hypercommodity  \nVIII. The Implosion of Meaning in the Media  \nIX. Absolute Advertising, Ground-Zero Advertising  \nX. Clone Story  \nXI. Holograms  \nXII. Crash  \nXIII. Simulacra and Science Fiction  \nXIV. The Animals: Territory and Metamorphoses  \nXV. The Remainder  \nXVI. The Spiraling Cadaver  \nXVII. Value's Last Tango  \nXVIII. On Nihilism  \nTHE PRECESSION OF SIMULACRA  \nThe simulacrum is never what hides the truth-it is truth that hides the fact that there is none.  \nThe simulacrum is true.  \n-Ecclesiastes  \nIf once we were able to view the Borges fable in which the cartographers ofthe Empire draw up a map so detailed that it ends up covering the territory exactly (the decline of the Empire witnesses the fraying of this map, little by little, and its fall into ruins, though some shreds are still discernible in the deserts-the metaphysical beauty of this ruined abstraction testifying to a pride equal to the Empire and rotting like a carcass, returning to the substance of the soil, a bit as the double ends by being confused with the real through aging) -as the most beautiful allegory of simulation, this fable has now come full circle for us, and possesses nothing but the discrete charm of second-order simulacra.*1  \nToday abstraction is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror, or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being, or a substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal. The territory no longer precedes the map, nor does it survive it. It is nevertheless the map that precedes the territory-precession of simulacra-that engenders the territory, and if one must return to the fable, today it is the territory whose shreds slowly rot across the extent of the map. It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges persist here and there in the deserts that are no longer those of the Empire, but ours. The desert of the real itself.  \nIn fact, even inverted, Borges's fable is unusable. Only the allegory of the Empire, perhaps, remains. Because it is with this same imperialism that present-day simulators attempt to make the real, all of the real, coincide with their models of simulation. But it is no longer a question of either maps or territories. Something has disappeared: the sovereign difference, between one and the other, that constituted the charm of abstraction. Because it is difference that constitutes the poetry of the map and the charm of the territory, the magic of the concept and the charm of the real. This imaginary of representation, which simultaneously culminates in and is engulfed by the cartographers mad project of the ideal coextensivity of map and territory, disappears in the simulation whose operation is nuclear and genetic, no longer at all specular or discursive. It is all of metaphysics that is lost. No more mirror of being and appearances, of the real and its concept. No more imaginary coextensivity: it is genetic miniaturization that is the dimension of simulation. The real is produced from miniaturized cells, matrices, and memory banks, models of control-and it can be reproduced an indefinite number of times from these. It no longer needs to be rational, because it no longer measures itself against either an ideal or negative instance. It is no longer anything but operational. Infact, it is no longer really the real, because no imaginary envelops it anymore. It is ahyperreal, produced from a radiating synthesis of combinatory models in a hyperspace without atmosphere.  \nBy crossing into a space whose curvature is no longer that of the real, nor that of truth, the era of simulation is inaugurated by a liquidation of all referentials-worse: with their  \nartificial resurrection in the systems of signs, a mat","cbCaijY5hcOmhWhA","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijY5hcOmhWhA","pdf",488004,5,1,108,"English","en",105,"# Table of Contents\n## The Precession of Simulacra\n## History: A Retro Scenario\n## Holocaust\n## The China Syndrome\n## Apocalypse Now\n## The Beaubourg Effect : Implosion and Deterrence\n## Hypermarked and Hypercommodity\n## The Implosion of Meaning in the Media\n## Absolute Advertising, Ground-Zero Advertising\n## Clone Story\n## Holograms\n## Crash\n## Simulacra and Science Fiction\n## The Animals: Territory and Metamorphoses\n## The Remainder\n## The Spiraling Cadaver\n## Value's Last Tango\n## On Nihilism","[{\"question\":\"What does “precession of simulacra” mean in the book?\",\"answer\":\"It describes a reversal in which models or representations come before and generate what they are supposed to refer to, making the territory a product of the map rather than its copy.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the book define simulation compared with imitation or parody?\",\"answer\":\"Simulation is not imitation or duplication; 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