An edition of Simulacra and Simulation (1994)

Simulacra and Simulation

by Jean Baudrillard

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An edition of Simulacra and Simulation (1994)

Simulacra and Simulation

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1 Simulacra and Simulation 1994, University of Michigan Press in English 0472095218 9780472095216	aaaa Preview Only

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First Sentence

"If once we were able to view the Borges fable in which the cartographers of the Empire draw up a map so detailed that it ends up covering the territory exactly (the decline of the Empire witnesses the fraying of this map, little by little, and its fall into ruins, though some shreds are still discernible in the deserts - the metaphysical beauty of this ruined abstraction testifying to a pride equal to the Empire and rotting like a carcass, returning to the substance of the soil, a bit as the double ends by being confused with the real through aging) - as the most beautiful allegory of simulation, this fable has now come full circle for us, and possesses nothing but the discrete charm of second-order simulacra."