Negation Realized

(SYM) Ruined Territory/(REF) Baudrillard – in continuation of Baudrillard references, Morpheus affirms that the skeletal “blackened ribs of a long-dead corpse” are indeed the ruined abstraction incarnate. Here, a cold and lifeless city is substituted for the distant memories of what was once a thriving, lively metropolis. 20th century simulation has been stripped away to reveal the tattered remnants of what had once been and will no longer be. Replacing the ideological Borges map with the realities of an extinct civilization, Morpheus develops a sense of closure in his negation of the referenced territory. Indeed, using stark imagery as a means to a startling end, the inverted actualization of Baudrillard’s theory produces a startling juxtaposition between the real and the hyperreal.