File spoon-archives/baudrillard.archive/baudrillard_1995/baudrillard.10-95, message 39


Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 18:48:45 -0500 (EST)
From: aspeitia axel arturo barcelo <abarcelo-AT-indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: secret, object, seduction




On Thu, 26 Oct 1995, B Madonna Durkheim wrote:

> 
> I don't know what seduction is.
> 
> I don't care what seduction is.
> 
	We are seduced only by that in the 'un'known which is to-be-known.
You do not know what it is and that does not let you not care. There are
lot of things we do not know, but only a selected few of them we do call
'secrets'. They have a supplementary element which makes them object not
of knowledge but of seduction. Perhaps all we know about them is that they
are unknown, but we still percieve something else about them which ignates
our desire (to know, to act). Incognita is that unknown which already
occupies a place in our body of knowledge. Secret is that unknown which
occupies a place in our body of desire. The knowledge of a secret does not
fit in the traditional modern understanding of knowledge as closely linked
to communications. Unlike 'objective' knowledge, the knowledge of a secret
is not built by being taught, communicated, etc., but by being hidden, kept,
etcetera. 
	-Axel Barcelo


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