CARD 2b.
Media are ubiquitous. Surveillance screens, the floodlights and binoculars of police helicopters, telescopic rifle and pistol sights, cover every corner of the city.
For theorists of the hyperreal, the replication identical images extends to urban forms, where it signals the replacement of competition by its simulacrum. Two households is the repeated insistence of the prologue, but their opposition may merely be the way a highly unified system conducts its business.