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green cubism: manufacturing aesthetic dissent in a globalized world of simulacrum
and unstable signifi ers
maryanne laurico
This revival of vanished – or vanishing – forms, this attempt to escape the apocalypse of
the virtual, is a utopian desire, the last of our utopian desires. The more we seek to rediscover
the real and the referential, the more we sink into simulation, in this case a shameful
and, at any event, hopeless simulation. —Baudrillard , The Illusion of the End
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