Simulation city

In his seminal paper ‘Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism’, Fredric Jameson argues that the postmodern condition is characterized by a new depthlessness in which reality is constructed through a multitude of fragmented reflections. He describes an environment dominated by pastiche and the random cannibalization of architectural styles. One consequence is the loss of historical and spatial orientation in a kind of postmodern ‘hyperspace’. Similarly, Edward Soja postulates Los Angeles as the harbinger of a city of hyperreal simulacra, a city of themeparks. He calls this city ‘exopolis’, the city without a centre, where the centre is simulated many times over yet the whole is incomprehensible.