Diller and Scofidio's 'Homebodies on Vacation'

This article discusses the notion of synthesized realities that have developed out of a common desire to locate and capture the 'authentic'. First the authors discuss the notions of heroic travel vs. tele-travel; the first seeming authentic in its struggles and the second being (perhaps) presently an acceptable substitute for some. Focusing on this question of what constitutes an authentic experience, the article brings up the advertising value of anything that claims to be real. This hunger to experience an authentic moment leads to such oddities as 'living histories' and random signifiers of the real, such as the London Bridge reconstructed in Arizona (with its fake channel so as to make it appear less out of place), and the Parthenon of concrete in Nashville. This sort of offered authenticity seems to have much in common with Farschou's system of fashion; both are uprooted and trained versions of a palletable idea of history.
Diller and Scofidio also comment on the desire to capture the authentic through the souvenir. In their work "Tourisms: suitCase Studies", which focuses on a tourist site in every state, they reorder geography to suit the alphabet, invent narratives from pieces of official and unofficial documentation, and use the double-sided nature of the postcard to split the story from the place. Using these ambiguous modes of representation further amplifies the discontinuous understanding we have of the world around us.
I found their "Slow House" to be particularly interesting in its marginalization of the place itself. The home becomes only another fragment of the mind, a virtual position tied to a symbolic and non-present reality. The only authenticity lies in the idea of a continuity between one position of control to another.