The World is a Mirror of the World That is a World of You Without You
The Antipodes, first mentioned by Cicero, are humans whose monstrosity is constituted by their inverted repetition of our every move and action in a place, the Antipodes, where inversion is the norm. They are our mirror images functioning only as a kind of pantomime of human existence - exact duplicates of every human body in existence transported to the realm 'below' where, foot to foot, they reenact each human gesture upside down. The monstrosity of the Antipode is that of parody, the location of the human body in a place that is the sphere of travesty itself.
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The Antipodes challenge the concept of the individuality of the self and present the monstrosity of self and other as coexistent and identical. The world of the Antipode is a world of pure multiplicity where everything is double and where the very concept of unity is impossible. More devastating to a sense of the real than inversion or antithesis, the Antipode confronts us with the dissolution of meaning through similitude. By the duplication of the self, the distinctiveness provided by the concept of selfhood is undermined in a perverse mimesis of the arch-imitator, humanity.
--Williams, Deformed Discourse
