In “The Precession of Simulacra,” French social theorist Jean Baudrillard further grapples with the notion of representation as an empty signifier. He again addresses his reoccurring idea that representations are really a way to conceal the anxiety of the pure absence of reality, that the representation in fact has nothing behind it; it is a simulacrum. THIS IS EDWIN P. BROWN address Baudrillard’s concept of simulacrum or the “mutation of the real into the hyperreal.” Through media, in this case a book published by the town of Murfreesboro , North Carolina , the individual Edwin P. Brown is created/simulated by empty signifiers that have been almost painfully repurposed to point to icon, as “created” reality somehow better than that which never really existed in reality. (FIVE DIGITAL PRINTS)