The Death of the Real
How Jean Baudrillard's prophetic vision of simulation has become our inescapable condition
Jean Baudrillard wrote “Simulacra and Simulation” in 1981, back when MTV still played music videos and the internet was a Pentagon experiment. He died in 2007, just as Facebook was going global. He never lived to see Instagram stories or TikTok dances, never witnessed a Twitter mob or a Zoom funeral. But somehow, this French philosopher mapped our curre…
