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simulation can be thought of like a timeline
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Images are reflection of a profound reality
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Images mask and denature a profound reality
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Images masks the absence of a profound reality
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The image has lost all connection to reality
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Simulation is different than a simple representation. A representation is our way of communicating and abstracting a “real” entity. So, our word “pumpkin,” or an image of one, represent the real thing that is a pumpkin. Simulation, on the other hand, is the negation of the “real” pumpkin. A simulacrum doesn’t cash in it’s value for the real thing, it only seeks to be exchanged with other simulacra and itself. It’s where semiotics meets capitalist commodity fetishism.