Models anticipate and immanently structure the real, leaving no space for fiction.

Evidence

This projection is totally reabsorbed in the implosive era of models. The models no longer constitute either transcendence or projection, they no longer constitute the imaginary in relation to the real, they are themselves an anticipation of the real, and thus leave no room for any sort of fictional anticipation - they are immanent, and thus leave no room for any kind of imaginary transcendence. The field opened is that of simulation in the cybernetic sense, that is, of the manipulation of these models at every level (scenarios, the setting up of simulated situations, etc.) but then nothing distinguishes this operation from the operation itself and the gestation of the real: there is no more fiction. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 397

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core statement of the precession of simulacra: the model precedes and produces the real.
• XREF: Opposes the Marxist-critical position of Jameson; this is where poststructural and Marxist theories of postmodernity diverge most sharply. — connects to: In simulation, models precede and engender facts rather than describing them. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 62; Models can become true by reshaping reality to fit them — Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem, 1426; Simulation substitutes signs of the real for the real itself — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 9 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• In the simulation order, reality has become the alibi of the model. #expands (0.90) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 400
• Models can become true by reshaping reality to fit them #expands (0.85) — Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem, 1426
• Reality’s coherence depends on a reserve of un-mapped imaginary territory #contradicts (0.80) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 403
• Fiction is the construction of foreshortened temporalities substituted for real time. #contradicts (0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 218
• Simulation substitutes signs of the real for the real itself #expands (0.75) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 9
• In simulation the real and its image become mutually reversible reflections #expands (0.75) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 469
• Reality is grasped only as a series of further representations #expands (0.72)