Living in the Simulacra: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Baudrillard

What is real in the twenty-first century, and how humans can navigate this shifting world.

Despite a twenty-first-century plethora of images and our collective understanding that digital tools may alter the truth, human beings have a strong belief in the truth of the image: “pix or it didn’t happen.” But what does it mean when the image itself is fabricated? Or when AI is used to create audio or visual content that has the appearance of “truth” but is not, in fact, real? In Living in the Sim...