The
goal of the present criticism is to return distance to the discourse,
to remind consumers that knowledge is a product of negotiation and that
there is and must be a difference between map and territory
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It
is precisely this distance which gives representation its appeal
to poetry.
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"It
is the perception of incongruity that gives rise to thought. However,
more specifically, I feel that it is the occasion of a gap, an
uncrossable chasm that provokes the mind to seek some form of
reconciliation." Smith, J.Z. Map is not Territory: Studies
in the History of Religions, (Leiden, 1978) p. 291.
Baudrillard,
Jean, Simulacra and Simulation trans. Sheila Faria Glaser (Ann
Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1994) p. 2.
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"It
is difference that constitutes the poetry of the map and the charm
of the territory, the magic of the concept and the charm of the
real."
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Without
the recognition of difference and awareness of representation as supplement,
there is no learning, no knowledge, and only the endless replication of
pre-existent order.
