Radical Cartography: If we were able to take as the finest allegory of simulation the Borges tale where the cartographers of the Empire draw up a map so detailed that it ends up exactly covering the territory (but where the decline of the Empire sees this map become frayed and finally ruined, a few shreds still discernible in the deserts -- the metaphysical beauty of this ruined abstraction, bearing witness to an Imperial pride and rotting like a carcass, returning to the substance of the soil, rather as an aging double ends up being confused with the real thing) -- then this fable has come full circle for us, and now has nothing but the discrete charm of second-order simulacra. Abstraction today is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or substance. It is the generation of models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal. The territory no longer precedes the map, nor survives it. Henceforth, it is the map that precedes the territory -- PRECESSION OF SIMULACRA -- it is the map that engenders the territory and if we were to revive the fable today, it would be the territory whose shreds are slowly rotting across the map. It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, in the deserts which are no longer those of the Empire but our own: The desert of the real itself. -- Jean Baudrillard, "The Precession of Simulacra"
Abstraction today is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or substance. It is the generation of models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal. The territory no longer precedes the map, nor survives it. Henceforth, it is the map that precedes the territory -- PRECESSION OF SIMULACRA -- it is the map that engenders the territory and if we were to revive the fable today, it would be the territory whose shreds are slowly rotting across the map. It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, in the deserts which are no longer those of the Empire but our own: The desert of the real itself.
-- Jean Baudrillard, "The Precession of Simulacra"
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ht Mr E.H. Paulson Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
This is not so far from putting simulated trees in a simulated digital environment. It is only the detection of novelty that moves us to more accurately codify a particular experience. Novelty rewards. It should be called the 'dessert of reality itself'.
I am not myself a user of 'pants' as an expression of ???. But it is a novelty... for the moment. You can't be me, I'm taken
Do try to keep up. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
But I think you have your etymologies intertwining like a pit of coral snakes coated in wild vaseline. 'Brown pants' and 'Oh pants', though conceivably connected, nevertheless have emerged from two different lines of social thought. You have to remember that the definition of 'pants' in your fair island, and in my enormous continent, differs. You can't be me, I'm taken
Tnahks you, Mig! Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
BTW, anybody know where to locate share/freeware JP2K reader for mac? Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
:-) Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.
ceebs, really! ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
[very serious] There is no there anywhere. [/very serious]
LOL
then it's all here!
nice to know... thanks for clearing that up. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
