1An image or representation of someone or something.
‘a small-scale simulacrum of a skyscraper’
‘Despite the obvious codes of virtuality at play, of simulation and simulacra, the image works.’
‘Anything for a ‘feel good’ image, for a simulacrum, in these postmodern times’
‘Painted kite tails, assemblages, photo and film documentation, and an electronic simulacrum of kite-flying were recently on view in a New York gallery’
‘With surgery, he makes clear, one becomes merely a simulacrum or copy; true identity is masked with the inevitable result that one is, ultimately, inauthentic.’
‘A buffalo skull tucked in the corner compresses the painting's message into a single object, a simulacrum for the Old West.’
‘Unlike France, the United States has never had a publicly defined national curriculum - although we seem to have allowed private enterprise to define a thoroughly unsatisfactory simulacrum of one.’
‘Whereas representation attempts to absorb simulation by interpreting it as false representation, simulation envelops the whole edifice of representation itself as a simulacrum.’
‘Heavily shaped by the generation of the 1960s, most of us may become mere simulacrums of our mentors.’
‘They are pop cultural simulacra, mere shadows of Cagney's tragic anti-hero and Marlon Brando's brooding Don.’
‘But then along comes a texture, timbre or pattern that is simply too frog-like or insect-like to be dismissed as a mere electronic simulacrum.’
‘They are mere simulacra, which replace real things and their actual relationships (only truly known to those on the left, who see through such illusions) in a process which Baudrillard calls hyperrealization.’
‘How it must wound the director to hear these words in Hollywood, on a mere back-lot simulacrum of New York - and from his own ex-wife!’
Origin
Late 16th century from Latin, from simulare (see simulate).
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