580RE

Atlas of Places

The territory is not the map I

2019

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 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.

The territory is not the map I
Grant County I
The territory is not the map I
Grant County II
The territory is not the map I
Grant County III
The territory is not the map I
Grant County IV
The territory is not the map I
Grant County V
42°51'36.0"N 90°42'36.0"W

Location: Grant County WI, USA

Text: Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 1994


Posted: February 2019
Category: Research