Title: Derivative
Review: The writing here may be interesting, but the theory is old--still correct, but old. If you want to read theories of simulation, start with Karl Marx on commodity fetishism, then go to Adorno and Horkheimer's "The Culture Industry," Jean Baudrillard's "The Precession of Simulacra," and Marshall McLuhan, especially _Understanding Media_. The idea that media and images have become the real, that life not only imitates art but is art--and really bad, commercial, ethically vapid art at that--is the foundational insight of postmodern theory.
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