Simulations

Synopsis

Baudrillard's bewildering thesis, a bold extrapolation on ferdinand de saussure's general theory of general linguistics, is in fact a clinical vision of contemporary consumer societies where signs don't refer anymore to anything except themselves. They all are generated by the matrix. Simulations never existed as a book before it was "translated" into english. Actually it came from two different bookcovers written at different times by jean baudrillard. The first part of simulations, and most provocative because it made a fiction of theory, was "the procession of simulacra.