Jean Baudrillard - Simulacra

Baudrillard is a famous French philosopher.  Simulacra and Simulation is a famous article in his life. In his articles, simulacra as a means of representation. The concept of Simulacra has a negation of the concept of reality. He argues that today there is no such thing as reality, but it becomes truth in its own right: the hyperreal. His point is that we have lost all ability to make sense of the distinction between nature and artifice.  And to clarify his point, he assumes that there are three "orders of simulacra": 1) in the first order of simulacra, which he associates with the pre-modern period,  the image is recognized as just an illusion,  like a place marker for the real; 2) in the second order of simulacra, which he associates with the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century, the distinctions between the image and the representation begin to break down because of mass production and the proliferation of copies; 3) in the third order of simulacra, which is associated with the postmodern age, we are confronted with a precession of simulacra. There is no longer any distinction between reality and its representation; there is only the simulacrum. To sum-up: he believes our world had became rely on the model and the map and human couldn't to figure out what is real.