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Personal Heroes Series: Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard
(June 20, 1929 – March 6, 2007)
“Today abstraction 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 by models of a real without origin or reality: A hyperreal. The territory no longer [...]
A moment of reflection
Reading Thomas Nagel’s seminal “What is it like to be a bat?” There is a mantra I find myself repeating:
THE MAP IS NOT THE TERRITORY.
Some food for thought, emphasis mine.
[There's a paper here, waiting to be written, about the relation of a presupposed subjective character of experience, the myth of the given, esoteric and exoteric [...]