The$Simulation$of$Identity$ Baudrillard(and(the(surface(of(things(( Pamela(Robinson( ABSTRACT$

slippage(of(identity.(We(are(no(longer(identifying(with(whom(we(see(in(the( mirror.( Jean Baudrillard has many ideas relating to media influence on our personal interactions and how these influences affected various artistic ventures, I would like to discuss how his theories have taken cinema, literature, and visual arts from the contemporary creative process into a post-constructural context. Baudrillard's ideas of simulacra and hyperreality have given a framework for understanding the concept of slippage of personal identity in our media obsessed world. From my studies of Baudrillard and others, I would like to propose the idea that online identity has become a way that individuals are deconstructing themselves. It is also my understanding that individuals are no longer looking in the mirror or social groups to form foundations of how we perceive ourselves. In these early years of the 21st century, a majority of people around the world have multiple online identities with slightly different versions of self for each category of interaction. Facebook and Twitter enable individuals to carefully edit our lives into