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Ichnographia Quondam, Campo Marzio section 6, mirror copy plans.

Replication in architecture
2008.02.17 11:19

1999.06.14
...the whole notion of reenactment itself, and how it differs from simulacra and plain mimesis. The key factor is the "acting" out again of a prior event or situation, which is different from just copying.


1999.08.10
Las Vegas is nothing less than an enormous hydroelectric reenactment of an oasis (complete with caravans, watering holes, and even a pyramid), and thus it is not at all unusual that the whole notion of reenactment is now Las Vegas' predominant theme.

excerpt from "The Speeches" in A Quondam Banquet of Virtual Sachlichkeit: Part III. p. 206.


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