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keiferski on Jan 8, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Philosophy of Ghost in the Shell (2012)

You might find Baudrillard interesting:

Simulacra are copies that depict things that either had no original, or that no longer have an original.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacrum

whtrbt on Jan 8, 2020 [–]

The hyperreal.

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