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The following is an excerpt from Jean Baudrillard, Selected Writings, ed. The publication of Simulacra et Simulation in marked Jean Baudrillard’s first important step toward theorizing the postmodern. If you’re like most people, your first experience with the musings of Jean Baudrillard and his work Simulacra and Simulation left you deeply.