hyperreality
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in semiotics and postmodernism: an inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality, especially in technologically advanced postmodern societies
Jean Baudrillard termed hyperreality—a network of surface appearance so densely configured and mediated through the manipulation of images as to displace our sense of what’s real. What we think of as the financial system is something that resides only on the surface
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