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If we were able to take as the finest allegory of simulation the
Borges tale where the cartographers of the Empire draw up a map so
detailed that it ends up exactly covering the territory (but where the
decline of the Empire sees this map become frayed and finally ruined, a
few shreds still discernible in the deserts — the metaphysical beauty
of this ruined abstraction, bearing witness to an Imperial pride and
rotting like a carcass, returning to the substance of the soil, rather
as an aging double ends up being confused with the real thing) — then
this fable has come full circle for us, and now has nothing but the
discrete charm of second-order simulacra.
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 substance. It is the generation of models of a
real without origin or reality: a hyperreal. The territory no longer
precedes the map, nor survives it. Henceforth, it is the map that
precedes the territory — PRECESSION OF SIMULACRA — it is the map that
engenders the territory and if we were to revive the fable today, it
would be the territory whose shreds are slowly rotting across the map.
It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there,
in the deserts which are no longer those of the Empire but our own: The desert of the real itself. Jean Baudrillard, "The Precession of Simulacra" |
Delicious!
Thanks, Francz.
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This is dedicated to the selfish of heart. Good luck out there.
“I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.”
—Fran Lebowitz (b. 1950), author
[FROM VICE MAGAZINE]
THE DARK LORD OF LOGOS
INTERVIEW BY KLAUS PICHLER
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Vice: So, Christophe Szpajdel, we hear that you’re the master of black-metal logos. But who are you, really?
Christophe: I am 37 years old, I come from Belgium but I live in Exeter, Devon, in the UK. In the last 20 years I have drawn more than 7,000 logos, mostly for black- and death-metal bands from all over the world, including Emperor, Moonspell, Nachtmystium, and Enthroned.
So do you sit alone by candlelight in the uppermost chamber of a castle and draw sinister things all night?
No. Besides drawing logos, I am a forestry engineer and I have a regular job as a customer-service assistant in retail. I need a job to support my artistic activity.
Will you stab me with a cursed, ruby-encrusted dagger if I say that I think you’re inspired by the Art Deco and Art Nouveau eras?
No. I am a big fan of Art Deco, Art Nouveau, and the Vienna Secession artists. But most important is a school of calligraphy that I created and developed. It’s called Depressiv’Moderne, and it’s a result of the merging of Art Deco, depressive dark ambient, and the actual economic depression we are in right now.
So you work in forestry engineering. Isn’t it contradictory to work for the protection of the environment while at the same time supporting music that wishes to lay waste to the earth until it’s a stinking heap of sulfur and bones?
I wouldn’t say so. In fact, it is some kind of a yin-yang. There are bands that make extreme music but lyrically deal with the purity of nature. They offer the perfect fusion between my fascination with nature—especially mountains—and metal. But a lot of extreme metal bands deal with the destruction of mankind, which I think is needed. Maybe not a complete destruction, but at least a drastic cull. Our streets need to be cleared of all the scumbags walking on them.
THIS IS WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU COMBINE SIXTIES DRUGS AND EIGHTIES AESTHETICS.
(NOT THAT I'M ADVOCATING EITHER, I'M JUST SA
I KNOW. IT SOUNDS PRETTY UNBELIEVABLE. BUT BELIEVE IT!!!
I MET HIM TONIGHT!!!
REZA BALUCHI WILL BE RUNNING THROUGH 195 COUNTRIES. HE CAN RUN 18 HRS / DAY. HE CAN RUN 100 MILES / DAY. I GET TIRED JUST THINKING ABOUT IT!
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NOW YOU HEARD. GO TELL YOUR MOM.
HERE'S A COUPLE SPREADS FROM BALENCIAGA THAT HAVE A SIMILAR COLOR SCHEME TO MY ILLUSTRATOR ACCIDENT...
THANKS, KEVIN.
I'M SHARING MY LATEST ILLUSTRATOR FUCK UP WITH YOU.
ENJOY.
