It’s a nod to a thing the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard wrote about in his essay The Precession of the Simulacra.
His entire work revolves around Simulacra, copies of real things that end up replacing reality until eventually the copy is the reality, with no original that it is derived from.
One of his inspirations in the aforementioned essay is a short story by Jose Luis Borges about a king who orders his mapmakers to draw him the most accurate map ever, which ends up being in 1:1 scale. An obviously nonsensical exercise, much like Mr. Rashed’s endeavor to replace his actual background with an identical copy just to prove a point.
It’s a nod to a thing the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard wrote about in his essay The Precession of the Simulacra.
His entire work revolves around Simulacra, copies of real things that end up replacing reality until eventually the copy is the reality, with no original that it is derived from.
One of his inspirations in the aforementioned essay is a short story by Jose Luis Borges about a king who orders his mapmakers to draw him the most accurate map ever, which ends up being in 1:1 scale. An obviously nonsensical exercise, much like Mr. Rashed’s endeavor to replace his actual background with an identical copy just to prove a point.
interesting