Also known as simulacra, dummy, fake, replica, dummy object, example object, placeholder, filler
thumb|Image of a real apple (left), and plastic food model apple (right). The fake apple is a simulacrum. A simulacrum (: simulacra or simulacrums, from Latin simulacrum, meaning "likeness, semblance") is a representation or imitation of a person or thing. The word was first recorded in the English language in the late 16th century, used to describe a representation, such as a statue or a painting, especially of a god. By the late 19th century, it had gathered a secondary association of inferiority: an image without the substance or qualities of the original. Literary critic Fredric Jameson of
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Within Vinony's link graph, 拟像 is referenced by 338 other articles, and connects out to pop art, Plato and Friedrich Nietzsche.
It is catalogued under topics including 16th-century neologisms, Hyperreality and Perception.
Its subject is documented across 27 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- object
- Image
- Contraffazione alimentare.gif
- Said to be same as
- Ersatz good
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- has characteristic
- degeneracy
- partially coincident with
- toy
- facet of
- Platonism
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