Simulacrum (plural: -crums, -cra), from the Latin simulacrum which means "likenesss, similarity","Word of the Day Archive: Thursday May 1, 2003" dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2003/05/01.html retrieved May 2, 2007 is first recorded in the English language in the late 16th century, used to describe a representation of another thing, 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."simulacrum" The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary 1993 Philosopher Frederic Jameson offers photorealism as an example of artistic simulacrum, where a painting is created by copying a photograph that is itself a copy of the real.Massumi, Brian. "Realer than Real: The Simulacrum According to Deleuze and Guattari." http://www.anu.edu.au/hrc/first_and_last/works/rea

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