CS351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Simulacrum, Minutiae, Social Relation

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6 Dec 2017
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Abstraction today is no longer that of the map, the mirror or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or a substance. It is the generation of models of real without origin or reality as a hyperreal. 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. It is with the same imperialism that present day simulators try to make the real, all the real, coincide with their simulation models. Something has disappeared: the sovereign difference between the map and the territory that was the abstractions charm. For it is the difference which forms the poetry of the map and the charm of the territory that magic of the concept and the charm of the real. Genetic miniaturization is the dimension of simulation.

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