Description:
The article is aimed at comprehension of symbolic politics and power and its nature disclosure. Novelty: the information-oriented society and the development of electronic communication facilities lead to the growth of semiotic system and form symbolic politics, which is based on media figures of political authority members. Summary: The current politics is visualized at the expense of simulacrum images production. Politics gains simulative type rather than just symbolic. Real politicians and political activities are substituted by bright visual imagery of electronic mass media. Furthermore, the symbolic activity transforms the sphere of politics into the sphere of simulacra production in spectacular show fashion: the victory goes to that ideas and figures which are more frequent and more persuasively presented on TV screens and monitors.