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More often I love books which no one else seems to have read, like The Masters of Solitude or Charles Whitmore's Winter's Daughter, or works considered "lesser" by critically acclaimed authors (The Simulacra is still my favorite Philip K. Dick book for its willingness to throw everything but the kitchen sink into the paranoid plot, and I like The Squares of the City over Brunner's more well-known novels).
MIND MELD: Books We Love That Everyone Else Hates (and Vice Versa) 2010
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The word Simulacra is good, but doesn't conjugate well into a verb form and thus never described the action of this way of seeing.
Pareidolia and Apophenia James Gurney 2008
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'Simulacra' was the first word that came to mind (which doesn't make sense ....
Cloning Questions fantasyecho 2007
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Simulacra are those systems in which different relates to different by means of difference itself.
Notes on 'Repetition, Representation and Revolution: Deleuze and Blake's _America_' 2008
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He was one of the defining voices in understanding modern consumer culture, butthe New York Times remembers him because his book, Simulacra and Simulation, appeared in The Matrix.
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Simulacra like hair or fingernails can be inserted into a doll representing the person to cast spells upon.
Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009
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These 2008 Grammy winners (for rocking hard and being Rush-like on the track "Wax Simulacra") have lived up to Rolling Stone's dubbing them best prog-rockers of 2008 by delivering a project that may bang a little less, but musically competes with most classic albums of that genre.
Mike Ragogna: New Tunes On Monday: Wilco, The Mars Volta, Don Henley and Christina Courtin 2009
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Simulacra and Simulations, Jean Baudrillard RIP posted by redbarren at 2: 04 PM
Simulacra and Simulations on a Friday. Ben Barren 2007
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Simulacra like hair or fingernails can be inserted into a doll representing the person to cast spells upon.
Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009
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Check out the BookHints recommendations for Simulacra and Simulationfor some further post-modernism reading.
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