The mechanism by which reality is losing its meaning

Post-structural agency Post-structuralism like Debord and Baudrillard discuss how the modern society creates alienating, unreal conditions. Most of their theories discuss frameworks and language to discuss, classify and categorize these structures in society and their outcome. A specifically useful term for identifying and discussing said structures is defined in Baudrillard’s work “Simulacra and Simulation”: the simulacrum, a copy of a copy that lost its original reference. It is thus hyperreal in the sense that it has no meaning to actual reality. He argues that it is overtaking reality and that real images are replaced by non-real images, the simulacra. The structure that produces the simulacra is the simulation, specifically the state of conditions that allow for things to be exchangeable by something non-real, without a change in outcome. ...

February 25, 2026 · Hornigold