Noun, : a simulacrum of Aphrodite.    From Dictionary.com. 

The power of simulacra is such that they essentially implicate at once the object = x in the unconscious, the word =.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes on 'Repetition, Representation and Revolution: Deleuze and Blake's _America_'] Reference

The public has its attention focused on the Game, the spectacle, that is, the simulacra.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stan Goff: Getting Off the Road] Reference

Baudrillard argued that today's society is constructed around "simulacra," which then become reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janine R. Wedel: Shadow Elite : Truthiness, Porn and the Real Problem With Reality TV] Reference

Actually, I find most of these the least convincing possibilities for Martian artificiality and the most likely candidates for the orthodox dismissive "simulacra" explanation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Posthuman Blues] Reference

That leaves about 35-39% that buy into the simulacra.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Diary: COTO and the coming Civil War] Reference

Its image revolves around size and celebrity and simulacra.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Feffer: Dubai on the Auction Block?] Reference

They are therefore counterfeits or simulacra of true virtue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jonathan Edwards] Reference

What is the difference between representation and simulacra?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stan Goff: Getting Off the Road] Reference

At the prices Figg paid, he no longer dealt with avatars or simulacra.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

A pressure or need for fame seems to produce work predicated on simulacra.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul Klein: Responses to Schism Article] Reference

We make simulacra out of mandrakes -- like the manicurist in the barber shop.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sky Is Falling] Reference

Humor about journalism has long since become but one more part of the simulacra.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jan Herman: Yeah, It's All My Fault] Reference

The door would open, the simulacra would emerge into sunlight and fly over the city.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mad Ship]

Well, as we analysts of mass culture say, it's an explosion of simulacra triggered by a simulacrum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wannabes] Reference

But of course we are actually dealing with our existential plight in a world of simulacra and signs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prisoner [updated]] Reference

We think we are being realisitic when we create simulacra that make us laugh at the "real" simulacra.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jan Herman: Yeah, It's All My Fault] Reference

After all, a postmodernist has the luxury in believing in the accrual of simulacra and related phenomena.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scott Thill: Postmodernists and Profiteers] Reference

Goblin made their situation more unpleasant by conjuring numerous simulacra of brothers present and past.    From Wordnik.com.  [She Is The Darkness]

They'll find simulacra in the embers of the barn-burned bodies that look just like hers and her father's.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Otherworld]

Whitman clearly prefers the simulacra of interaction in a political Potemkin village of her own purchasing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meg Whitman's New! Improved! Post-Journalism! Politics] Reference

Sheiks like to invest their bounties in American bank stakes and tourist traps featuring wax celebrity simulacra.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mega Bank Musical Chairs?] Reference

But simulacra are not only a game played with signs (emphasis added); they imply social rapports and social power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stan Goff: Getting Off the Road] Reference

Palafox could take pride in such evidence of genetic vigor, which tended to shape all of his sons into near-simulacra of himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Languages of Pao]

Why make it, to destroy and replace with something else, when projection panels could instantly create any of thousands of simulacra?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boat of a Million Years]

In DeLanda's book, he describes the effect of ubiquitous simulacra (simulations, specifically war games) on human interpretive skills.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stan Goff: Getting Off the Road] Reference

Therefore there is no social construction as a woman and therefore men may become simulacra of what they see as objects and objectify.    From Wordnik.com.  [Responding To The Feminist Anti-Transsexual Arguments] Reference

Having made use of self-motivating simulacra of himself on more than one occasion, Flinx was familiar with the sophisticated technology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flinx's Folly]

(The non-visual senses are addressed too, even though, technically speaking, they rely not on simulacra but on other kinds of effluence.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucretius] Reference

What, then, is the magical difference between the social construction of a “simulacra” of a woman and a “Minerva Approved” woman?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Responding To The Feminist Anti-Transsexual Arguments] Reference

It provided an always - changing environment, keyed by the random thoughts of its patrons but preprogrammed with nondestructive simulacra.    From Wordnik.com.  [The End of The Matter]

I guess the problem would be if you internalized the simulacra, so that your response to external signs was like a mirror looking at a mirror.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jan Herman: Yeah, It's All My Fault] Reference

Not to mention you've got Rush and the Beck dude channeling Father Coughlin, inspiring Ma and Pa Kettle to display Hitler simulacra fashioned as Obama.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lionel: Gelt For Geezers: Obama's New Healthcare Plan] Reference

Even if you were to object that music, for example, is just a sign, I would reply that my experience of the sign is real and therefore has little to do with simulacra.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jan Herman: Yeah, It's All My Fault] Reference