"For Baudrillard, simulation can be thought of like a timeline from representation to simulation in 4 steps, as he notes in his book “Simulacra and Simulation.”
- Images are reflection of a profound reality: A picture of pumpkin is like the real thing.
- Images mask and denature a profound reality. A picture of the pumpkin is like a shitty version of the real thing.
- Images masks the absence of a profound reality, the cake pumpkin was a lie.
- The image has lost all connection to reality. It is pure simulation. Pumpkins, as a natural phenomenon, are a lie and this picture I just handed you is just a napkin that I peed on."
