" For Baudrillard the twin towers of the New York World Trade Center symbolize the binary system. While the other skyscrapers, built decades earlier, are singular and compete aggressively for attention, the two towers stand for the 'closure of the system in a vertigo of duplication' [1]
Thus everything
becomes reduced to cybernetics - to a binary code that
seems to represent differences but which, in reality, only perpectuates
this
self-regulating binary system..."
- Postmodernism
for Beginners - Jim Powell - 1998
[1]
Simulations - Jean
Buadrillard - 1983 (the book which Neo was holding in the movie
The Matrix)
