At p.4 Baudrillard writes that unmasking the simulacrum 'God' reveals that 'deep down God never existed, that only the simulation ever existed, even that God himself was never anything but his own simulacrum,' which would certainly seem to imply that simulacra were always simulacra, never 'images,' i.e. that they never concealed anything substantive.

(Note: this is much longer than I expected. I recommend reading the last two paragraphs and returning to the beginning if you're still interested)

Ok! I finally got through the Jameson. I would just like to echo KF’s plea that we should NOT ever, under any circumstance, emulate Jameson’s writing style. Yuck. That said, I do feel as though Jameson brings up some interesting issues revolving around the “Postmodern” that were especially alluring, namely explorations of the term that involved architecture.