[viccis]

>Not yet, I will put it on my book backlog.

It's very good but be warned that it's very much written in the continental philosophy style, so it can come across as inscrutable to people not used to French 20th century philosophy at times.

>vs trying to recreate a past that is gone

The real challenge is that sometimes it's like this, which a simulation. But sometimes we're trying to recreate a past that never existed, and that's when it becomes simulacral.