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After a while from watching _GITS: S.A.C. 2nd GIG_ and according to the Stand
Alone Complex as defined under [different
terms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Baudrillard#Simulacra_and_Simulation)
by the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard in the idea of the Stand Alone
Complex is a copy of an original copy:

> Simulation, Baudrillard claims, is the current stage of the simulacrum: all
> is composed of references with no referents, a hyperreality. Progressing
> historically from the Renaissance, in which the dominant simulacrum was in
> the form of the counterfeit—mostly people or objects appearing to stand for
> a real referent (for instance, royalty, nobility, holiness, etc.) that does
> not exist, in other words, in the spirit of pretense, in dissimulating
> others that a person or a thing does not really "have it"—to the Industrial
> Revolution, in which the dominant simulacrum is the product, the series,
> which can be propagated on an endless production line; and finally to
> current times, in which the dominant simulacrum is the model, which by its
> nature already stands for endless reproducibility, and is itself already
> reproduced.

Does this not make the concept of the Stand Alone Complex its own copy of a
previous work?


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Truth behind the Stand Alone Complex—a copy of a copy?


In the anime, it was stated that the Stand Alone Complex is the spawning of
copies without an original. The concept was borrowed from Baudrillard and you
can in fact argue that the popularity of _Ghost in the Shell_ is overshadowing
his work, and this would be an example of second-order simulacra.


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