I recently described "Terminator Genisys" as a "simulacrum of a movie"; the same applies here, and there may be a connection between the two, in the creation of movies for an international market.
The vision behind Khazar Islands, after all, is not a vision so much as a simulacrum of a vision.
Or, rather, it becomes a simulacrum of a thriller.
Rationally, a simulacrum of a state is better than no state at all.
The play chronicles the financial collapse of a world-renowned business kingpin, a decline that serves as a simulacrum of Rattigan's own fall from grace.
By bringing the protest inside an institution, Wallinger gives us a chance almost to freeze it, presenting it as a simulacrum of itself.
In this way, the site could function as a kind of simulacrum of the traditional Indigenous cyclical enculturation process into maturity.
Britain exported its élites sending aristocrats, Gothic architecture, and pheasant as far afield as Australia to create a simulacrum of Victorian society abroad, and also bolstered the status of indigenous rulers: Indian maharajas, Middle Eastern emirs, and West African chiefs.
A college degree may not be as important in finding a job as "ideas you could create, a simulacrum of credentials, through apps and social media.
What the hunters were fighting for in 2004, and continue to fight for as they demand repeal, is a simulacrum of the hunting these two nonagenarians practised in the rooted rural England of the middle of the last century.
