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Hence, in modern society consumption defines the stages where the commodity is immediately produced as sign, and signs as commodities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of essays attempts an analysis of the sign form in the same way that Marx's critique of political economy sought an analysis of the commodity form: as the commodity is at the same time both exchange value and use value, the sign is both signifier and signified. 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They all are generated by the matrix.\u003cbr\u003eSimulations never existed as a book before it was \"translated\" into English. Actually it came from two different bookCovers written at different times by Jean Baudrillard. The first part of Simulations, and most provocative because it made a fiction of theory, was \"The Procession of Simulacra.\" It had first been published in Simulacre et Simulations (1981). The second part, written much earlier and in a more academic mode, came from L'Echange Symbolique et la Mort (1977). It was a half-earnest, half-parodical attempt to \"historicize\" his own conceit by providing it with some kind of genealogy of the three orders of appearance: the Counterfeit attached to the classical period; Production for the industrial era; and Simulation, controlled by the code. It was Baudrillard's version of Foucault's Order of Things and his ironical commentary of the history of truth. The book opens on a quote from Ecclesiastes asserting flatly that \"the simulacrum is true.\" It was certainly true in Baudrillard's book, but otherwise apocryphal.One of the most influential essays of the 20th century, Simulations was put together in 1983 in order to be published as the first little black book of Semiotext(e)'s new Foreign Agents Series. Baudrillard's bewildering thesis, a bold extrapolation on Ferdinand de Saussure's general theory of general linguistics, was in fact a clinical vision of contemporary consumer societies where signs don't refer anymore to anything except themselves. They all are generated by the matrix.In effect Baudrillard's essay (it quickly became a must to read both in the art world and in academe) was upholding the only reality there was in a world that keeps hiding the fact that it has none. Simulacrum is its own pure simulacrum and the simulacrum is true. In his celebrated analysis of Disneyland, Baudrillard demonstrates that its childish imaginary is neither true nor false, it is there to make us believe that the rest of America is real, when in fact America is a Disneyland. It is of the order of the hyper-real and of simulation. Few people at the time realized that Baudrillard's simulacrum itself wasn't a thing, but a \"deterrence machine,\" just like Disneyland, meant to reveal the fact that the real is no longer real and illusion no longer possible. 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In a torrent of haikus, which can now be seen as classically Baudrillardian, he swirls Foucault's concepts of repression, sexuality, production, consumption, and history around in an intense, and often comical, reversal of forces. Exceeding the boundaries of literary or philosophical critique, Baudrillard writes from beyond the horizon of political thought and in a space of phantasmic speculation, finally \"using\" Foucault's terminologies and public significance to launch his own form of occult, philosophical clarity. 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The essays evaluate current negative obsessions such as apocalypse and the elimination of difference, and offer positive approaches to the \"gamble of thinking\" required in a society without traditional subjects and institutions. Capitalism, the book argues, has changed all the rules of the game, and any nostalgia for \"starting\" from the familiar in terms of intellectual critique is doomed. 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De este a oeste y de norte a sur, a bordo de un Chrysler silencioso y mágico, Baudrillard se ha ofrecido un recorrido cinematográfico a lo Wim Wenders» (Lucile Laveggi). Entre Europa y América hay la separación de un abismo de modernidad: América es la versión original de la modernidad, nosotros somos la versión doblada y subtitulada. Europa sueña, América realiza sus sueños. Europa escribe el guión, América rueda. Europa se desengaña, en América sólo existe lo real. Los mitos se han desplazado: todos los mitos de la modernidad son hoy día americanos. América no es un sueño ni una realidad, es una hiperrealidad porque es una utopía vivida desde el principio como realizada. Es la única sociedad primitiva de los tiempos modernos. El misterio de la realidad americana va más allá de nuestra ficción y de nuestras afirmaciones. Es el misterio de una sociedad que no se arrepiente de sí misma y que, en el fondo, tampoco intenta darse un sentido o una identidad. 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