simulacrums

Monopolies on the other hand, being unnatural simulacrums of rights, aka privileges, are indeed undermined by nature, by the nature of information and the tools and technologies we create to improve our facility with it.

Newspapers are doomed 2009

Many of us supposedly can no longer distinguish reality from simulacrums and have begun to prefer the ersatz.

Mumblecore Realism in the Age of Technology Richard B. Woodward 2011

Dons with long reproachful faces will utter it and the friends of dons; the shapes and simulacrums which our parents have taken, the father - substitutes and mother-types which we have projected will accuse us and all await our ritual suicide.

Arrested Development 2008

Dons with long reproachful faces will utter it and the friends of dons; the shapes and simulacrums which our parents have taken, the father - substitutes and mother-types which we have projected will accuse us and all await our ritual suicide.

Arrested Development 2008

But a good leader—and a good president—must exhibit the real deals, and not just rhetorical simulacrums thereof.

Obama is a girly man 2010

Dons with long reproachful faces will utter it and the friends of dons; the shapes and simulacrums which our parents have taken, the father - substitutes and mother-types which we have projected will accuse us and all await our ritual suicide.

Arrested Development 2008

Sebastian Arcelus and Amy Spanger are both cast to type and coached into giving simulacrums of Ferrell and Deschanel when they play Buddy and Jovie, which doesn't do them or the show any favors.

Michael Giltz: Theater: Al Pacino in Subtle Merchant Of Venice; An Obvious Elf and More Michael Giltz 2010

Sebastian Arcelus and Amy Spanger are both cast to type and coached into giving simulacrums of Ferrell and Deschanel when they play Buddy and Jovie, which doesn't do them or the show any favors.

Michael Giltz: Theater: Al Pacino in Subtle Merchant Of Venice; An Obvious Elf and More Michael Giltz 2010

Monopolies on the other hand, being unnatural simulacrums of rights, aka privileges, are indeed undermined by nature, by the nature of information and the tools and technologies we create to improve our facility with it.

Newspapers are doomed 2009

So, let me be clear, simulacrums are not 'preserving the past', they are living games that we want to see supported by people playing them and producing material for.

Live and Learn James Maliszewski 2008