Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 09:19:26 -0800 From: William Bogard <BOGARD-AT-WPOFFICE.WHITMAN.EDU> Subject: disappearance (Real Baudrillardians probably don't > post...) But he himself does post. His project of disappearance is very much a public spectacle. What do you make of that? - malgosia baudrillard 'disappears' in the media. don't we all? (exactly the point of his piece on the implosion of the masses in the media). is there a 'political' sense to this? not at all. it is the simulation of politics. and what resists the simulation of politics? indeed, what resists the simulation of anything these days (and what baudrillard calls the 'brutal de-simulation of everything today,' the final abjection of the real, its complete absorption into simulation)? baudrillard writes about the woman who sends her lover one of her eyes after he told her he loved them. for baudrillard, it's not about 'resistance' but seduction, and seduction is the gift, and the ultimate sacrifice (shades of Mauss, Bataille)... baudrillard's writing is an exercise in fatal theory. if he can seduce theory away from itself, give it a gift that can't be returned, that would be no small accomplishment. bb ------------------
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