cxadams on Nostr: WELCOME TO THE DESERT OF THE REAL "The map is not the territory" is a recurring ...
WELCOME TO THE DESERT OF THE REAL
"The map is not the territory" is a recurring concept in #philosophy and science. The quote is associated with the mathematician Alfred Korzybski. Lewis Carroll wrote a tale about a fictional country that covered itself with a map that was 1:1 scale. Jorge Luis Borges reworked that into his own story, which ends with the line: "In the western Deserts, tattered Fragments of the Map are still to be found..." Jean Baudrillard turned this on its head in *Simulacra and Simulation*: "It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges persist here and there in the deserts that are no longer those of the Empire, but ours. The desert of the real itself." In *The Matrix*, Neo has a copy of this book with a secret compartment hiding computer disks. After Neo is rescued, Morpheus tells him, "Welcome to the desert of the real." Slavoj Žižek later used this phrase as the title of a book about the aftermath of 9/11.
"The map is not the territory" is a recurring concept in #philosophy and science. The quote is associated with the mathematician Alfred Korzybski. Lewis Carroll wrote a tale about a fictional country that covered itself with a map that was 1:1 scale. Jorge Luis Borges reworked that into his own story, which ends with the line: "In the western Deserts, tattered Fragments of the Map are still to be found..." Jean Baudrillard turned this on its head in *Simulacra and Simulation*: "It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges persist here and there in the deserts that are no longer those of the Empire, but ours. The desert of the real itself." In *The Matrix*, Neo has a copy of this book with a secret compartment hiding computer disks. After Neo is rescued, Morpheus tells him, "Welcome to the desert of the real." Slavoj Žižek later used this phrase as the title of a book about the aftermath of 9/11.