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How does the map overwrite the physical territory it claims to represent?

Today we look at literary simulations, from the bedroom of Victor Hugo to the Orlando welter of parks and rides.

https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/building-fantasies/

#frictionalreading #booksandsociety #bookphilosophy #bookpodcast #literarycriticism #travelwriting #travelogues #books #umbertoeco #jeanbaudrillard #walterbenjamin #marktwain #lmmontgomery #simulations

I’m finishing up Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy. After that, either the last 75 pages of A Theory of Semiotics by #UmbertoEco or a re-read of The World Jones Made by #PhilipKDick.
#books #BookSky

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/post/3mrznchm2qk25

While some in the #TrumpAdministration (not #ElonMusk, though) tried(!) to wear their #fascism not too blatantly obvious on their sleeves so that people would unanimously agree on it being fascism, https://aliens.gov/ paints a very clear picture:

#UmbertoEco describes several things that you can see on the #AlienFiles site as fascism:

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#uspol #MassDeportations2026 #politics #TrumpAdministration2026 #Project2025 #AlienEnemiesAct #HabeasCorpus #DueProcess #SecondTrumpAdminstration

Vince is back with our #WeeklyPicks! 📚

Featuring ✨

Nash Falls by #DavidBaldacci
The Name of the Rose by #UmbertoEco
First-Time Caller by #BKBorison
The Tower by #FloraCarr
The Apocalypse is a Side Quest by #LiamLawless
We Used to Live Here by #MarcusKliewer
Wayfarer by #PhoebeSmith
A Wizard of Earthsea by #UrsulaKLeGuin

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