Abstract.--In the hyperreal order of simulations, which is governed by informatic and cybernetic control systems, reality is increasingly determined by models (rather than the reverse). The distance ...

Even among those who have never read any of his books, Jean Baudrillard is celebrated for his ideas of “simulation” and “hyperreality”, which he uses to describe a world in which, as he sees it, ...

Some writers appear so accurate in their assessment of where society and technology is taking us that they have attracted the label “prophet”. Think of J. G. Ballard, Octavia E. Butler, Marshall ...