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This post reminds me of Umberto Eco's intellectual divertissements. More specifically, this fantastic piece, "On the Impossibility of Drawing a Map of the Empir
by theletterf 3y ago
This post reminds me of Umberto Eco's intellectual divertissements. More specifically, this fantastic piece, "On the Impossibility of Drawing a Map of the Empire on a Scale of 1 to 1."
https://s3.amazonaws.com/arena-attachments/881694/cb6119367bf63e879815ce2299d09995.pdf https://s3.amazonaws.com/arena-attachments/881694/cb6119367b...
- alberto_ol 3y agoUmberto Eco quoted Jorge Luis Borges: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Exactitude_in_Science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Exactitude_in_Science
- remoquete 3y agoYes, though it'd be perhaps more accurate to say it expanded upon the theme, as Wikipedia says.
- B1FF_PSUVM 3y agoSpeaking of Borges, sometimes I'm sadly reminded of his spoof of categorization schemes ("Animals: those that belong to the Emperor, embalmed ones," etc. ) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevolent_Knowledge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevole...