DAU: Outside and Beyond History by Philip Cavendish

“…The editorial considers DAU as a postmodernist simulacrum. It explains the title of the special issue and its allusive potential, firstly in terms of postmodern playfulness, and secondly in terms of the title of French director Jacques Tati’s Playtime, a film which dates from 1967. …”
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Becoming-Black Bloc, Becoming-Anartist: the art of prolonging and remodulating counter-cultural lines of flight by Gian Luigi Biagini

“…The Anartist is a sort of simulacrum that decentralizes, remodulates and intensifies the counter-cultural mythology of Black Blocks. …”
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Emotional Hooligan: Post-Subcultural Research and the Histories of Britain’s Football Gangs by Tarik Sabry

“…The argument also incorporates the notion that the methodological work which should be undertaken is a study of the simulacrum of hooliganism, the expanding body of football hooligan literature in all of its forms manifesting itself in literary novels and the explosion of ‘gangster’ memoirs of older football hooligans, which might eventually lead us to better, more informed ethnographies of football hooligan subcultures. …”
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Utilizing process mining with large synthetic datasets : A case study on chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer by Fatin Izzati, Ramli

“…This paper presents a case study on integrating process mining using a large synthetic dataset of breast cancer cases named Simulacrum. The aim was to analyze the chemotherapy treatment process through process mining. …”
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Sleeping in Beowulf by Kathleen Dubs

“…Moreover, the traditional literary uses of sleep as a simulacrum of death also occur. But correlations among these concepts are not consistent. …”
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Last Rites: Self-Representation and Counter-Canon Practices in Classical Music through Radhe Radhe by Sharanya M

“…As an instance of the Deleuzian simulacrum, it represents a radical departure from the cultural politics of ‘everyday colonial racism’ (Levitz, 2017: 163) surrounding the 1913 Rite by employing a collaborative vocabulary that resists the hegemonic performance traditions of western classical music.…”
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Mental Gravity: Depression as Spacetime Curvature of the Self, Mind, and Brain by Lachlan Kent

“…The principle of mental gravity contends that the mind uses physical gravity as a mental model or simulacrum to express the relation between the inner self and the outer world in terms of “UP”-ness and “DOWN”-ness. …”
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Composite Reality on the Television Screen by Shabalin Vladimir V.

“…Taking into account Russian and foreign scientific works, the author analyses the issues of creating a multifaceted screen space when replacing its part or a specific object image without displaying the surrounding subject reality, and introducing a virtual background image, elements of augmented virtuality with areal object image and a simulacrum into the screen picture. The author clarifies in which case an element of additional visuals acquires the properties of augmented reality, and specifies the functionality of truncated virtuality in the algorithm for creating screen space when the background image moves. …”
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Sexual-textual erotics in Après l’amour by Agnes Vannouvong by Margaret Gillespie

“…Are the “true feelings”of the erotic to be opposed the simulacrum of pornography as Lorde suggests? Are we now living in a time that is quite literally “after love”, where we are condemned to look back with nostalgia on the age of authentic emotions, just as the narrator in the novel looks back with longing and regret on her past relationship with Paola? …”
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A Mellotron-Shaped Grave: Deconstructing the Death of Progressive Rock by Mattia Merlini

“…This study will mainly focus on the role of critics and of the Anglo-symphonic stereotype, seeking to give an alternative account of the death (and rebirth) of prog from a contemporary and postmodern perspective (capable of interpreting the two main breeds of contemporary prog in light of Baudrillard’s concept of simulacrum), and to give some of the forgotten histories the relevance they deserve.…”
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Point of View of Jean Baudrillard on the Philosophy of Cinema Survival by Mahdi Attarzadeh, Maryam Jamali, Mohammad Zaimaran

“…Among the achievements of the current essay, one can mention the fact that according to Baudrillard, contemporary cinema is so immersed in the simulacrum that it has become a means for simulation. …”
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Reproduction and Marginalization of Space within the context of Culture Tourism: The Example of Beypazari Houses / Kültür Turizmi Bağlamında Mekânın Ötekileştirilmesi ve Yeniden Ür... by Sema Demir

“…The data that is obtained from this field study are analyzed according to the models of Jean Baudrillard’s simulacrum and simulation and Irvin Cemil Schick’s concept regarding the transition process of the areas into the spaces.…”
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Academic integrity as a challenge, demand and will: contexts of philosophical anthropology, ethics and philosophy of education by Назіп Хамітов

“…It has been proven that true academic integrity is impossible without true academic dialogue, without it it turns into a simulacrum. The heuristic meaning of the concept “will to academic integrity” is substantiated. …”
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Le torri di Monte Prama: i nuraghi nel paesaggio culturale dell’età del Ferro by Paolo Bernardini

“…The models of Nuraghe assume in this reconstruction the ideological meaning of specific sign of the power that binds to the reality of the new times. The simulacrum of the Nuraghe works as ideological mechanism that legitimizes the authority and prestige in the perception of human groups for which the tower is still vital sign of the present and of their physical and psychological landscape.…”
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<b>Monty Python e a inversão do platonismo</b> by Flavia Pitaluga

“…The hypothesis underpinning these articulations is that the death of God (the crisis of Truth) is inseparable from the way in which modern individuals experience time: modern cinema, in its “direct presentation of time” (DELEUZE, 1990), questions linearity and truth itself as being representable. Keywords: simulacrum; nonsense; humor; Monty Python…”
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“The Devil in Love” By A. V. Korolev: Experience of Reconstruction

“…The study allows concluding that Korolev constructs a new, “corrected” reality in “The Devil in Love” in the best traditions of simulacrum aesthetics.…”
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Conceptualization of Imperial Markers in the Architectural Ensemble of Budapest by Yu. M. Maltseva

“…Summarizing some of the most important historical trends that determined the architecture of Budapest, its aesthetic and architectural appearance and the influence that it experienced from other imperial cities, we can conclude that Budapest is a non-referential sign, reflection, and simulacrum of an imperial city that does not refer to any particular empire and to most empires at the same time.…”
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Cyber-Reality of New Generations and McDonalization of Society and Media by Nenad Vertovšek

“…Baudrillard this setting specifies as the simulacrum of the social world as determined by transitions from modern to postmodern society and transform the world of people in the game of pictures and symbols. …”
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Epistemic injustice: an epiphenomenon of advertising communication by Zh. E. Vavilova

“…Advertising as a simulacrum, an artifact of modern mythologized society has for a while been in the focus of philosophical research, but the phenomenon of epistemic injustice generated by advertising communication still requires reflection. …”
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El éxito de los nuevos chamanes: Turismo místico en los Andes ecuatorianos by Alberto Del Campo Tejedor

“…Essentialist “neo-Incaism,” the concept of pristine nature with “energetic” places, the rise of the ancestral medicine, the idealization of the community as opposite the Western way of life, the institutional recognition of the interculturality and indigenous cultures, the international growth of a “neo-Indian” network, New Age syncretism, the cultural capital of 'yachaks' (shamans), and the possibility of marketing the spiritual in a “fast ritual” format, all these show the multidimensionality of a tourism that eludes a simple categorization as authentic or simulacrum to help us understand—in light of the “glocal” phenomenon—the place in the world that many indigenous groups in Latin America currently occupy.   …”
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