Wednesday, March 13, 2013

CARTOGRAPHY ... (A WRITER'S REFLECTION)

Cartography (a writer's reflection):
* A map is not the reality, it is a bounded representation, a simulation accepted as a reality.
- a mind map.
(Visit "simulacrum"}
* In 9/11 the mind map was moved to the territory of Iraq, away from the "territories" of its "truth," also maps in the minds of the perpetrators, thus the Iraq mind map preceded the war map and masked the maps underneath.
* When I read an assemblage of signs, say a report, the map it creates is a simulation that my mind map alters even further.
* We, no different from other animals, map our “territory.”

* Ergo ...

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