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Simulacra And Simulations: Disneyland

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Simulacra and Simulations: Disneyland by Jean Baudrillard is an essay about what is real and what isn’t, and if certain things can become real. Simulacra is a latin word meaning a copy, or a representation of something else. Baudrillard’s main argument is that these copies can turn into their own reality. Baudrillard gives the example of someone who’s pretending to be ill, and someone who is simulating to be ill. He writes, “Someone who feigns an illness can simply go to bed and pretend he is ill. Someone who simulates an illness produces in himself some of the symptoms” (Littre, 358). According to Baudrillard, there is a line between pretending and simulating. With pretending, there is always the reality that the person is not telling

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