created by DuckDerrida on 05/02/2024 at 10:09 UTC
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Comment by jliat at 05/02/2024 at 10:35 UTC
40 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Jean Baudrillard never occurred.
Comment by baker_81 at 05/02/2024 at 19:41 UTC
12 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Once you’re accustomed to his purposeful flashy writing and his polemical style— he’s probably the best theorist of his generation and increasingly relevant today. He’s a poet. I can understand why some would be turned off by him, but he thought of the world in a way no one else had before him. Also it’s not true that no one talks about him— at least my anecdotal experience says otherwise.
Comment by DuckDerrida at 05/02/2024 at 10:25 UTC
-12 upvotes, 2 direct replies
"The parasite serves as a useful simulacrum for post-modernism. Post-modernity engages us with a kind of viral discourse, which seeks to comprehend an object without subsuming it under a system of concepts. Baudrillard’s discourse can itself be described as potlatch. An obscene ecstatic ritual exhibiting pure excess and self-effacement. [Baudrillard's 1977 book] Forget Foucault seems to be nothing more than a regurgitation of an otherwise excellent meal, which just happened to be ill-digested by a ruined palette. Is this Baudrillard’s provincialism? His 'superficiality?' Let us not forget that Baudrillard’s interest in writing came nowhere near to Foucault’s passion for letters. Baudrillard enjoyed a rich and diverse life full of various activities outside of academia. A jack of all trades, he only wrote when he felt like it, while Foucault made sure he himself always felt like writing, even at the cost of violent self-mutilation. As difficult as it is to admit, symbolic reversals will never be able to challenge the complex armament of Foucauldian strategies for resistance."