Simulacra and Simulation

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1. It is the reflection of a basic reality.
2. It masks and perverts a basic reality.
3. It masks the absence of a basic reality.
4. It bears no relation to any reality whatever.

In the 4^th form, it is its own pure simulacrum. A simulacrum is defined by Baudrillard as:

"Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being, or a substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal... It is no longer a question of imitation, nor duplication, nor even parody. It is a question of substituting the signs of the real for the real".

— "Simulacra and Simulation" - 166