Stendhal Syndrome

Dinosaurs

Jurassic Park

“All that we believed over and done, left behind by the inexorable march of universal progress, is not dead at all; it seems to be returning to strike at the heart of our ultrasophisticated, ultravulnerable systems. It’s a bit like the last scene of Jurassic Park, in which the modern (artifically cloned) dinosaurs burst into the museum and wreck havoc on their fossilized ancestors preserved there, before being destroyed in their turn. Today we are caught as a species in a similar impasse, trapped between our fossils and our clones.” - Jean Baudrillard - The Vital Illusion

Spanish Flu Hospital, 1919