A simulacrum is near-perfect replication erasing the original-copy distinction.

Evidence

By ‘simulacrum’ is meant a state of such near perfect replication that the difference between the original and the copy becomes almost impossible to spot. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1826

Categorization

• DEFINE: Definition of ‘simulacrum’ — but the excerpt is cut off mid-thought and under 24 words; should not be selected on its own.
• XREF: connects to: Copying an original makes both copy and original equally artificial — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 36; Perfect resemblance destroys the imaginary because exact doubling erases the image itself — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 352; A simulated God leaves the entire system a weightless self-referential simulacrum — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 18

Broader Connections

• Perfect resemblance destroys the imaginary because exact doubling erases the image itself #expands (0.85) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 352
• A simulated God leaves the entire system a weightless self-referential simulacrum #exemplifies (0.80) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 18