How long does it take to read Simulacra and Simulation?
Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard takes about 3 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours
A weekend read
First published 1994. 164 pages, about 45,100 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 1 minute |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 53 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Simulacra and Simulation is a philosophical essay in which Jean Baudrillard examines how reality, symbols and society relate, focusing on the signs and imagery of culture and media that shape a shared sense of existence. He argues that contemporary society has swapped reality and meaning for representations that no longer point to anything genuine, so that lived experience becomes simulation. He traces a progression of sign-orders, from faithful copies to images with no original, and links three orders of simulacra to premodern, industrial and postmodern eras. Media, money, capitalism, urban life and language drive this blurring of the real.
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Subjects: Resemblance (Philosophy), Reality, Kulturphilosophie, Réalité, Postmoderne, Massamedia
