Abstract

In the Seventies “simulacrum” was a common term in the French intellectual debate, thanks to the reading of Nietzsche proposed by Pierre Klossowski and Gilles Deleuze, and later for its provocative use in Jean Baudrillard’s work. Perniola’s The society of simulacra reframes these influent models in a sort of manifesto, aimed to outline an exit from the Seventies. Not really viable as social or political option, the enigmatic strategy depicted in this book will be enacted from Perniola himself, opening a new phase of his thought.