Today abstraction is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror, or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being, or a substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal.

it is with this same imperialism that present-day simulators attempt to make the real, all of the real, coincide with their models of simulation.

it is dangerous to unmask images, since they dissimulate the fact that there is nothing behind them).