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In a world increasingly defined, to all intents and purposes, by its mediation, Baudrillard distinguished between three scales of "simulation", each step up in scale signifying a further progression away from the notion of objective physical reality.
In a world increasingly defined, to all intents and purposes, by its mediation, Baudrillard distinguished between three scales of "simulation", each step up in scale signifying a further progression away from the notion of objective physical reality.
First-order-simulation: a consciously artificial representation of the real, intended to be read as such.
Second-order-simulation: where the symbolic representation of the real is given a reality of its own.
Third-order-simulation: where the dominant mode of representation has no necessary relation to a source of reality. (simulacra)
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