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Simulacra and Simulation
Simulacra and Simulation

Jean Baudrillard
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Simulacra and Simulation is a 1981 philosophical treatise by Jean Baudrillard, in which the author seeks to examine the relationships between reality, symbols, and society, in particular the significations and symbolism of culture and media involved in constructing an understanding of shared existence.—Wikipedia



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Bicentennial Staff Picks

  • Simulacra and Simulation


  • Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World


  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone


  • Wired


  • Snotgirl Vol. 1


  • Matter : a Culture novel


  • Cinder


  • The Little Prince


  • Daisy Jones & The Six


  • The Lost Words: A Spell Book


  • Slaughterhouse Five


  • Dune Messiah


  • Dawn


  • The Far Field


  • Lost Horizon


  • The Never Game


  • The Girl From Rawblood


  • The Friend


  • The Master and Margarita


  • Inferno: The World at War 1939-1945


  • Braiding Sweetgrass


  • Wolf Hall


  • Communing With The Divine: A Clairvoyant's Guide To Angels, Archangels and the Spiritual Hierarchy


  • Star Wars : from a certain point of view : 40 stories celebrating 40 years of Star Wars


  • One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish


  • Look Both Ways : a Tale Told in Ten Blocks


  • The House at Pooh Corner


  • The Index Card


  • In the Dust of This Planet


  • Understanding Comics: the Invisible Art


  • Riddley Walker


  • The Stand


  • Taproot : a story about a gardener and a ghost


  • Stormy: A Story About Finding a Forever Home


  • The Rest is Noise


  • Life


  • Why You Like This Photo : the Science of Perception


  • Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero


  • The Woman in White


  • Strange Planet


  • A Clockwork Orange


  • Ecology of a Cracker Childhood


  • Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker


  • Oreo


  • The Essential Tales of Chekhov


  • I Know This Much is True


  • Jane Eyre


  • Copper Beach


  • Under the Volcano


  • Oleanna


  • Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years


  • Suttree


  • Mouse Guard: Fall 1152


  • The Road Less Traveled


  • The Jordan Rules


  • Illuminatus! Trilogy


  • Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said


  • The Ghost Clause


  • East of Eden


  • The College of Beer : The Story of Nick's English Hut


  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows


  • My Favorite Thing is Monsters, Book One


  • Travels With Charley


  • The Color Monster


  • Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters


  • Robin


  • Warrior of the Wild


  • Fables. 8, Wolves


  • Autobiography of an Execution


  • What is the What


  • True Grit


  • Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking


  • Naked Lunch


  • The Lost Coast


  • Birdie and Me


  • The Time Traveler's Wife


  • The Goldfinch


  • The Story of Ferdinand


  • Carry On: The Rise and Fall of Simon Snow


  • Four Novels of the 1940s & 50s


  • Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction


  • The Mistress of Spices


  • Little Bear


  • The Chronicles of Amber


  • The Brothers Karamazov


  • To Kill A Mockingbird


  • The Stardust Road


  • Know My Name: A Memoir


  • Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine


  • Raintree County


  • Tropic of Cancer


  • Station Eleven


  • The Murderer's Ape


  • Spoon River Anthology


  • Hopscotch


  • The Wild Robot


  • A Little Princess


  • The King's Stilts


  • The Last Wish


  • Giver of Stars


  • The Raven Boys


  • The Luster of Lost Things


  • Chloe's Vegan Desserts


  • Fog Island


  • Near to the Wild Heart


  • The Music Lesson


  • Patriot Games


  • The Library


  • The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath


  • Through a Life


  • Have A Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks


  • Ulysses


  • The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy


  • The Silmarillion


  • Big Sur


  • The Go-Between


  • Pretty Deadly, Volume One: The Shrike


  • Persepolis


  • His Majesty's Dragon


  • Cry, Heart, But Never Break


  • A Study in Scarlet Women


  • Catch 22


  • Cannery Row


  • Three Things About Elsie


  • The Monkey's Raincoat


  • Wild Beauty


  • Their Eyes Were Watching God


  • Foucault's Pendulum


  • Prelude to Bruise


  • Parable of the Sower


  • Dark of the Moon


  • The Quilter's Apprentice


  • Gilead


  • Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste


  • Dune


  • The Room : A Novel


  • Rural Free


  • Clear and Present Danger


  • My Name is Asher Lev


  • Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Poems & Drawings of Shel Silverstein


  • Providence


  • The New Moosewood Cookbook


  • Hawkeye omnibus


  • The Life and Art of Felrath Hines : from dark to light


  • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City


  • Sunny


  • The Lord of the Rings


  • Dealing with Dragons


  • Dragon Bound


  • The Snowy Day


  • Running with Sherman


  • The Universe in a Nutshell


  • On A Sunbeam


  • The Travelling Cat Chronicles


  • The Pirate Coast


  • Feeling Sorry for Celia


  • The Shell Seekers


  • Growth of the Soil


  • Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid


  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time


  • VALIS


  • The Blue Sword


  • I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness


  • Figuring


  • Six Seasons


  • The Diary of a Young Girl


  • Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale


  • The Shipping News


  • Siddhartha


  • Thanks a Thousand: A Gratitude Journey


  • Madame Blavatsky: The Mother of Modern Spirituality


  • Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?


  • The Woman in the Dunes


  • The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms


  • The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works


  • Unterzakhn


  • The Charterhouse of Parma


  • The Eye of Minds


  • In Full Color


  • Do Fish Sleep?


  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy


  • Dangerous Laughter


  • Anne of Green Gables


  • The Clan of the Cave Bear


  • Dietland


  • Me Talk Pretty One Day


  • The Snow Child


  • The Word Is Murder


  • X'ed Out


  • Once & Future, Volume 1


  • Foundryside


  • Watchmen


  • My Brother's Husband, Vol. 1


  • Nitro --The Incredible Rise and Inevitable Collapes of Ted Turner's WCW


  • The Johnstown Flood


  • Dragon's Merry Christmas


  • War and Peace


  • The Licanius Trilogy


  • Castoff: The Strange Adventures of Petra De Winter and Bram


  • The Lifespan of a Fact


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Submitted by Bill W. on Thu, 2019-09-26 11:44