>If once we were able to view the Borges fable in which the cartographers of the Empire draw up a map so detailed that it ends up covering the territory exactly [...] this fable has now come full circle for us, and possesses nothing but the discrete charm of second-order simulacrum [...] It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges persist here and there in the deserts that are no longer those of the Empire, but ours. The desert of the real itself.
>One possibility of a way out is through symbolic-exchange. This is because there's no way that the sentimentality felt by an object such as a wedding ring can neatly fit into the signified and signifier duality. The feeling is too abstract, too personal, and hearkens back to a pre-modern time in which gift-giving and seductive gestures were the norm. Am I understanding this correctly? This sounds very Jungian.
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