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Simulacrum Theory

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Simulacrum seems to invisibly consume our everyday lives, but we do not understand it well enough to notice or question it. This essay will try to elaborate on what simulacrum is. The orders of simulacrum will be broken down and an example will be used to help explain simulacrum. However there is another element to understanding simulacrum, which is how we understand the concept of the “real”. We must understand that there is a lack of “real” in our world, to fully grasp how simulacrum indeed does take over or lives by changing our idea of reality. Baudrillard describes simulacrum as having four different stages (1981:2). Each stage or order of simulacra successively becomes more difficult to distinguish from reality. Interestingly these same …show more content…

The image precedes what it is representing by replacing it (Baudrillard 1981:1). Second order simulacrum seems to replace the need for a reality with representation of reality. Harts (2004:55) theory of reality states that because there are multiple realities, there is no need for a reality at all. Baudrillard (1981:1) continues to explain this as hyper-reality. We live through the images we see of reality instead of reality …show more content…

Third order simulacra create their own reality that stands on its own. Often they are physically tangible objects which are considered “real”. However their existence deters us from normal reality because they create physically, the realities that were once only in people’s heads. Third order simulacrum may reference some elements of “normal” reality, which is exactly what makes them believable as reality. There are still visible signs of reality within them. All the orders of simulacrum in conjunction with each other create the deterrence machine. The deterrence machine is the field of images that hinder our acknowledgment of the difference between reality and simulacrum (Baudrillard 1981:4). They are images and objects or places that confuse our brain into thinking that they are one in the same (Baudrillard 1981:4). The deterrence machine tries to hide the fact that any type of “traditional reality” still exists (Baudrillard 1981:5). In fact that anything “real” at all exists. Figure 1 Photographer unknown, Taiwan and Malaysia group cosplay of anime Saint Seiya, 2013 (Taiwan coser-king Great room

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