The following are the first two paragraphs: Using Borges’ short story as a starting point, Jean Baudrillard discusses the inversion of the relationship between models and reality in “The Precession of Simulacra”, the opening chapter from his book, Simulacra and Simulations. – Suárez Miranda, Viajes de varones prudentes, Libro IV, Cap. In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars in all the Land there is no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography. The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast map was Useless, and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the Inclemencies of Sun and Winters. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. In that Empire, the Art of Cartograhy attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. Check out this one-paragraph short story from Jorge Luis Borges, “On Exactitude in Science”: The Ludic fallacy is the fallacy of mistaking the model/map for the reality/territory.