Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 20:44:11 +0100 (MET)
From: jnech-AT-imaginet.fr (NECHVATAL Joseph)
Subject: Re: Suicides


>>Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 14:36:00 -0400
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>>Subject: Suicides
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>>I find the California suicides tragic and interesting . According to
>>McLuhan  the electronic environment detaches us from our bodies. This
>>results in a violent attempt to regain contact, hence pornography. But
>>given the gnostic, New Age ideology it also results in a total rejection
>>of the body. Meanwhile the aliens who are supposed to elevate these people
>>to a higher plane are harder to contact than God himself. A weirder and
>>weirder situation.
>>GS
>>

Jean Beaudillard tells us in Simulations: "It is no longer a question of
imitation nor reduplication, nor even of parody. It is rather a question of
substituting signs of the real for the real itself  We seek a metastable
state which provides all the signs of the real and short circuits all its
dangers.  Never again will the real have to be produced-this is the vital
function of the model in a system of death, or rather of anticipated
resurrection which no longer leaves any chance even in the event of death.
A hyper-reat therefore, sheltered from the imaginary, and from any distinct
relation between the real and the imagined, leaves room only for the
reoccurrence of models in the simulated generation of diffirence."

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Joseph Nechvatal, Paris, France, Europa
http://www.cybertheque.fr/galerie/jnech
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