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"The Indian thus returned to the ghetto, in the glass coffin of the virgin forest, again becomes the model of simulation of all the possible Indians from before ethnology... Of course, these savages are posthumous: frozen cryogenized, sterilized, protected to death, they have become referential simulacra, and science itself has become pure simulation..."
... "We have all become living specimens in the spectral light of ethnology, or of antiethnology, which is nothing but the pure form of triumphal ethnology, under the sign of dead differences, and of the resurrection of differences. It is thus very naive to look for ethnology in the Savages or in some Third World -- it is here, everywhere, in the metropolises, in the White community, in a world completely cataloged and analyzed, then artificially resurrected under the auspices of the real, in a world of simulation, of the hallucination of truth, of the blackmail of the real, of the murder of every symbolic form and of its hysterical, historical retrospection -- a murder of which the Savages, noblesse oblige, were the first victims, but that for a long time has extended to all Western societies."
- The Precession of Simulcra, p.8-9
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