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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Softcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> 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 tes- tifying 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 beauti- ful allegory of simulation this fable has now come full circle for us and possesses nothing but the discrete charm of second-order simulacra 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 a substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal. The territory no longer precedes the map nor does it survive it. It is nevertheless the map that precedes the territory-precession of simulacra- that engenders the territory and if one must return to the fable today it is the territory whose shreds slowly rot across the extent of the map. It is the real and not the map whose vestiges persist here and there in the deserts that are no longer those of the Em- pire but ours. The desert of the real itself. (LL)