The very definition of the real has become: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction…The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced: that is, the hyperreal…which is entirely in simulation.
– Jean Baudrillard. Simulations. 1983: Semiotext[e]. (Trans: Paul Foss, Paul Patton and Phillip Beitchman.)