The Animation Show” is out to change minds. Don Hertzfeldt and Mike Judge want to prove that animation and the short film are crucial forms within the broader rubric of cinema. To make their point, ...

Simulacra is the simulation of a simulation, usually found in mass media. Depictions of fictional characters outside of the original work, reboots, sequels, news outlets covering stories about other ...

Author's Note: Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation inspired The Matrix, and fittingly, a "copy" of the book appears in an early scene in Neo's apartment.

Baudrillard (Simulacra and Simulation ) argues that the outcome of such a split between subject and the “natural world” is an absolute alienation in which both sides vanish.