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Do you like French Surrealism? Do you have strong opinions on capitalism, history, and/or media politics? Do you like movie criticism or books that reference Phillip K. Dick and Borges? If so, Simulacra and Simulation may be for you! A short, but dense treatise by French philosopher Jean Baudrillard on the aftermath of media culture, Simulacra and Simulationoffers a rather depressing thesis: everything in the world as we know it may be a complete simulation (an imitation of reality we constantly repeat) or a simulacra (a thing or concept that has no basis in reality). Although he often comes across as manic or overwrought, Baudrillard has some thoughts that will definitely shock you. He argues Disneyland is a “waste-treatment plant,” pornography is metaphysical, and history itself is a failed attempt to exhume an inaccessible past. Did I mention he is very convincing? -- Evan's Pick