Simulacra, architecture, tourism and the UncannyFootnote^*

* The word uncanny, referring in our case to the (emotional impacts of) being familiar and yet strange, is derived simply from the Anglo-Saxon un-kennt, meaning unknown but somehow familiar, as though something had been visible but got hidden. It is closely related to the German unheimlich, meaning almost the same, and productively examined by Jentch and Freud (and in the same vein by Lacan). French has no exact equivalent, but, depending on context, one may use étrange, inouï, dingue, troublant, étonnant etc., especially in combinations such as étrangement troublant.

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