“By crossing into a space whose curvature is no longer that of the real, nor that of truth, the era of simulation is inaugurated by a liquidation of all referentials - worse: with their artificial resurrection in the systems of signs, a material more malleable than meaning, in that it lends itself to all systems of equivalences, to all binary oppositions, to all combinatory algebra. It is no longer a question of imitation, nor duplication, nor even parody. It is a question of substituting the signs of the real for the real, that is to say of an operation of deterring every real process via its operational double, a programmatic, metastable, perfectly descriptive machine that offers all the signs of the real and shortcircuits all its vicissitudes.”
― Simulacra and Simulation
― Simulacra and Simulation
“Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.”
― Gravity and Grace
― Gravity and Grace
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Twilight of the Idols
― Twilight of the Idols
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