on exactitude in science is a short story by borgesborges
siempre imaginé que el paraíso sería algún tipo de biblioteca.
it is enough for me to say that if I am rich in anything, it is in perplexities rather than in certainties. a colleague declar.... the title suggests an allegory about science Private or Broken Links
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. it inspired ecoeco
umberto eco (5 january 1932) wrote about philosophy, semiotics, fascism. he was born in alessandria. he studied at the university of turin and wrote a thesis on aquinas. he was frie... and baudrillardbaudrillard
baudrillard was a philosopher interested in semiotics and the simulacrum.
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on the impossibility of drawing a map of the empire on a scale of 1 to 1
such a map (and not a plaster cast) would have to be coextensive with the territory. and you can't put the map in the desert of a different, larger empire. and it is a single map, not an atlas Private or Broken Links
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. and it has to be a semiotic tool, therefore cannot be a transparent sheet.
you could put an opaque map over the territory, but then you'd have to correct for the disruption of sunlight and atmosphere.