copy
1. (advertising) Written material produced by a copywriter.2. In print journalism, written material provided by a journalist for a newspaper or magazine.3. A ‘copy without an original’ (Baudrillard): ...
hyperreality
1. In a mediated context, an artificially created copy that is perceived as somehow more real than the real thing, or too real to be real: modelled on reality but with an exaggerated intensity, such ...
image
1 The representation of an object that is produced when electromagnetic radiation passes through it or is reflected from it. Visible images are formed when light impinges on the retina, and various ...
Jean Baudrillard
(1929–2007),cultural theorist and philosopher, born in Reims, France. His work was at the forefront of the postmodernist and deconstruction movements, and influenced sociological and communications ...
simulation
A procedure used when there is no analytic solution available for a problem involving random variables. Pseudo-random numbers are used to mimic the random variables involved. Two general methods are ...
Situationism
A small, influential and highly politicized artistic movement founded in 1957, from the remnants of two previous Avant-garde groups, the Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus (led by Asger Jorn, who had ...
