Category Archive: Fake Authenticity

 

’nuff’s’nuff

’nuff’s’nuff

 

 

THIS IS NOT A COPY.

THIS IS NOT A COPY.

THIS IS THE ORIGINAL.

 

“The artwork, then, is neither an original nor a copy nor a representation. It is a simulacrum, a work that forms part of a series that cannot be referred to an original beginning.”

“The artwork, then, is neither an original nor a copy nor a representation. It is a simulacrum, a work that forms part of a series that cannot be referred to an original beginning.”

 

THIS IS A SIMULATION

THIS IS A SIMULATION

 

“The simulacrum is more than just a useless image, it is a deviation and perversion of imitation itself – a false likeness.”

“The simulacrum is more than just a useless image, it is a deviation and perversion of imitation itself – a false likeness.”

 

“…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.”

“…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.”

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THIS IS A FACSIMILE

THIS IS A FACSIMILE

 

“Abstraction today is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror or the concept.”

“Abstraction today 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 …