Illusion is impossible today because the real itself is no longer possible

Evidence

The impossibility of rediscovering an absolute level of the real is of the same order as the impossibility of staging illusion. Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible. It is the whole political problem of parody, of hypersimulation or offensive simulation, that is posed here. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 73

Categorization

• DEFINE: A compact formulation of hyperreality: loss of the real entails loss of illusion’s staging ground.
• XREF: connects to: Realism is naturalized ideology, and today’s realistic was yesterday’s impossible — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 37; Ubiquitous taping destroys the illusion that an unmediated real exists — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 769