ON EXACTITUDE IN SCIENCE
In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast Map was Useless, and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the Inclemencies of Sun and Winters. In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in all the Land there is no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography.
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Suarez Miranda,
Viajes de varones prudentes, Libro IV,Cap. XLV, Lerida, 1658
[Jorge Luis Borges, 1946, translated by Andrew Hurley]
SACRAMENT, MALEFICE, SORCERY THE DISAPPEARANCE OF JEAN BAUDRILLARD
THE DEATH OF GOD Doublethink as an Art Form
BAUDRILLARD IN BANGKOK Ceci n’est pas une pipe
BAUDRILLARD IN BRABANT The Murderous Capacity of Images
PYROTECHNICS The Gulf War Did Not Take Place
ENTER THE PSEUDO-GANG The Terrorist Tactic
McLUHAN IN MANHATTAN The Spirit of Terrorism
VULTUS TELA VIBRAT Thy Countenance: Shakespeare’s
BAUDRILLARD AT THE BATACLAN The Double-Edged Sword
EVERYONE AND SOMEONE Edward de Were and the Rebirth of the Author
UTOYA: BLOOD GAMES Child Sacrifice for a Sustainable Society
DECKARD’S UNICORN Replicant Epiphanies
THE COSMOGONY OF ERIC P DOLLARD The Understanding Not Desired to Exist
THE MICROSCOPIST Royal Rife, the Bechampian Heresy, and the Power of Forgetting
PASSENGERS Stars, Television, and the Sadness of Astronauts