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In the Burgkapelle, the clichés of a purportedly brilliant world of commodities and media contrast with the illusionistic baroque painting and the regional canon of saints; here, besides the successful simulation of diverse worlds, it is not least a question of levelling the world. If Josef Ferdinand Fromiller attempted, using the secrets of geometry, to break through the reality of the building itself, opening up a heavenly sphere for the divine, in today’s consumer society with its relatively complex world of commodities, a superficial, regularly repeated spectacle and the sham reality constructed by the media have long been sufficient to capture the attention of the individual and influence his actions. The title The Flat Earth Society is taken from a movement which, against all scientific evidence, still maintains that the Earth is actually a disc.