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A simulacrum is a copy without reference to its original that’s able to stand on its own merit. It’s a useful concept in media, and nowhere else is it more useful than in discussing Orphan Black, where literal clones have their own interior lives. You know who else might be a simulacrum? You. Hear us out, it’s gonna get weird.
(via PBS Idea Channel on Youtube)
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Published: May 15, 2014 08:07 am