Sanam Shahedali
Professor
Hossein Sabouri, PhD
English
Literature MA – Understanding Literature
25 January 2017
“If you know the
whole, you know nothing,
As the whole is
the signifier of the un-signified.”
-Attar
This review is
an attempt to provide a summary of Jean Baudrillard’s article “Simulacra and
Simulations” (French: “Simulacres et Simulation”). Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007)
is a French sociologist and philosopher whose works and theories are
predominantly associated with the postmodern condition. In his article “Simulacra
and Simulations”, Baudrillard examines the contemporary society in terms of its
relations to the concepts of reality, representation and simulation.
