simulacrum

Isolde sat amazed, wine glass between her hands, as if she had blundered into another Germany, which held its festivals sacrosanct, timeless simulacra of olden days.

The hyperreality, which lives within the simulacra, does not require anything external or contextual to provide meaning and authenticity.

Billy Scott Art Exhibition Simulacra features a host of famous faces, brought to life in stunning drawings which Billy creates in a shed at his home in Anfield.

In cyberspace, it creates a discontinuous and perverse myth of political discourse which distances itself from dialectics and instead moves towards the area of stereotypes, simulacra and denotative distortion of meaning, both metalinguistic and connotative.

In the 1980s, when the term was first coined, VR epitomized the cumbrous simulacra of the era: All Max Headroom stutter and cyberpunk goggles, it was an apparent culmination of the long fantasy of living in total illusion, a history spanning phantasmagoria to the Circarama, holographic video, surround sound, dome theaters, and experience machines.

Doctors, thespians and thinkers of the modern world all saw these increasingly lifelike automata: wonderful simulacra of life.

Within a multiple-layered universe, doomed to become victims of their own neurotic estrangement from reality, individuals navigate through governmental conspiracies, self-induced hallucinations and media-created simulacra, without being aware that their own unstable identities prevent them from ever truly grasping their reality--or realities.

The Fit-Bits on our wrists, Google Nest thermostats on our walls and Samsung smart TVs listening in on our living rooms all cast data shadows of their own, recording and quantifying us in novel ways that make our digital simulacra more comprehensive than ever before.

Jean Baudrillard proposed to call such images "simulacrums" in Simulacra and Simulation (1981).

French philosopher Jean Beaudrillard argues in his 1981 book Simulacra and Simulation that humans no longer have the capacity for real experiences--that reality has been replaced by copies and our perception of symbols and signs.