Simulacrum

Simulacrum: reality melts together with imagination. 

In other words: a place where we escape to from reality such as cinema or games.

Discussed in Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation (1981). He claims that we don't have the sense to make difference between real experiences and simulations of them. Media became the new reality.

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Jean Baudrillard's  4 successive historic phases of the image

1. The image is a reflection of basic reality. (e.g.: Realism)
2. The image masks and perverts a basic reality. (e.g.: Surrealism)
3. The image marks the absence of a basic reality. (e.g.: Adverts, Modernist mass production)
4. The postmodern simulacrum. (e.g.: Today?)

Link: http://publish.uwo.ca/~dmann/baudrillard1.htm