… what is faked [by the computerization of image-making], of course, is not

… what is faked [by the computerization of image-making], of course, is not reality, but photographic reality, reality as seen by the camera lens. In other words, what computer graphics have (almost) achieved is not realism, but rather only photorealism – the ability to fake not our perceptual and bodily experience of reality but only its photographic image.