Hyperreal objects resemble nothing but the empty form of resemblance itself.

Evidence

Therein objects shine in a sort of hyperresemblance (like history in contemporary cinema) that makes it so that fundamentally they no longer resemble anything, except the empty figure of resemblance, the empty form of representation. … It is a question of life or death: these objects are no longer either living or deadly. That is why they are so exact, so minute, frozen in the state in which a brutal loss of the real would have seized them. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 162

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines hyperresemblance/hyperreal as the empty form of representation — key Baudrillard concept for this reader’s project.
• XREF: Central passage for the Jameson-vs-Baudrillard dialectic: Jameson reads neofiguration as historical depthlessness too, but frames it economically rather than referentially. — connects to: The appearance has its own being and refers to nothing behind it — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 119; Production’s hidden purpose is restoring the real through hyperreal resemblance — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 85

Broader Connections

• Production’s hidden purpose is restoring the real through hyperreal resemblance #expands (0.85) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 85