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It explains simulation as the liquidation of referentials and the substitution of signs for the real, producing operational, reproducible reality. It further contrasts feigning with simulating, showing how simulated symptoms destabilize true/false distinctions in medicine and psychology.","Simulations  \nJean Baudrillard  \nTranslated by Paul Foss,Paul Patton and Philip Beitchman  \nSemiotext[e]  \n01983 Semiotext[e]and Jean Baudnillard  \nPrinted in the United States of America  \n1098765432  \nContents  \nThe Precession of Simulacra  \nThe Orders of Simulacra  \n...  \n4……………………1  \n81  \n# The Precession of Simulacra\n\nThe simulacrum is never thatwhich conceals the truth—it isthe truth which conceals thatthere is none.  \nThe simulacrum is true.  \nEcclesiastes  \nIf we were able to take as the finestallegory of simulation the Borges tale wherethe cartographers of the Empire draw up amap so detailed that it ends up exactlycovering theterritory(but where thedeclineof the Empire sees this map become frayedand finally ruined,a few shreds stilldiscernible in the deserts—the metaphysicalbeauty of this ruined abstraction,bearingwitness toan Imperial pride androttinglike acarcass,returning to the substance of thesoil,rather as an aging double ends upbeingconfused with the real thing)—then thisfable has come full circle for us,and now hasnothing but the discrete charm of second-order simulacra.1  \nJean Baudrillard  \nAbstraction today is no longer that ofthe map,the double,the mirror or theconcept.Simulation is no longer that of aterritory,a referential being or a substance.It is the generation by models of a realwithout origin or reality:a hyperreal.Theterritory no longer precedes the map,norsurvives it.Henceforth,it is the map thatprecedes the territory—PRECESSION OFSIMULACRA-it is the mapthatengenders theterritory and if we were to revive the fabletoday,it would betheterritory whoseshredsare slowly rotting across the map.It is thereal,and not the map,whose vestiges subsisthere and there,in the deserts which are nolonger those of the Empire,but our own.The deserf of the real itself.  \nIn fact,even inverted,the Fable isuseless.Perhaps only the allegory of theEmpire remains.For it is with the sameImperialism that present-day simulators tryto make the real,all the real,coincide withtheir simulation models.But it is no longer aquestion of either maps or territory.Something has disappeared:the sovereigndifference between them that was theabstraction's charm.For it is the difference  \n# The Precession of Simulacra\n\nwhich forms the poetry of the map and thecharm of the territory,the magic of theconcept and the charm of the real.Thisrepresentational imaginary,which bothculminates in and is engulfed by thecartographer's mad project of an idealcoextensivity between the map and theterritory,disappears with simulation -whose operation is nuclear and genetic,andno longer specular and discursive.With itgoes all of metaphysics.No more mirror ofbeing and appearances,of the real and itsconcept.No more imaginary coextensivity:rather,genetic miniaturisation is the dimen-sion of simulation.The real is produced fromminiaturised units,from matrices,memorybanks and command models—and with theseit can be reproduced an indefinite number oftimes.It no longer has to be rational,since itis no longer measured against some ideal ornegative instance.It is nothing more thanoperational.In fact,since it is no longerenveloped by an imaginary,it is no longerreal at all.It is ahyperreal,the product of anirradiating synthesis of combinatory modelsin a hyperspace without atmosphere.  \nIn this passage to a space whose  \nJean Baudrillard  \ncurvature is no longer that of the real,nor oftruth,the age of simulation thus begins witha liquidation of all referentials—worse:bytheir artificial resurrection in systems ofsigns,a more ductile material than meaning,in that it lends itself to all systems ofequivalence,all binary oppositions and allcombinatory algebra.It is no longer aquestion of imitation,nor of reduplication,nor even of parody.It is rather a question ofsubstituting signs of the real for the realitself,that is,an operation todeterevery realprocess by its operational double,a metast-able,programmatic,perfect descriptive ma-chine which provides all the signs of the reala","cbCaisYhy5q4OV7e","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaisYhy5q4OV7e","pdf",6008000,6,1,165,"English","en",105,"# The Precession of Simulacra\n## The simulacrum and hyperreality\n## Liquidation of referentials\n# The Divine Irreference of Images\n## Disimulation vs simulation\n## True symptoms and medical/pyschological limits","[{\"question\":\"What does Baudrillard mean by the “precession of simulacra”?\",\"answer\":\"The map comes before the territory: models generate the territory rather than reflecting a prior reality. 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