File spoon-archives/baudrillard.archive/baudrillard_1995/baudrillard.10-95, message 8


Date: Wed, 04 Oct 1995 16:55:43 -0500 (CDT)
From: levy-AT-UTARLG.UTA.EDU
Subject: Re: OJ



By the "same concerns" I didn't mean the same opinions or interpretations 
(disagreement creates as much as it undoes communities), but the same 
major object of interest.  Jews all have the Torah, which creates a 
community around it, even though there are different interpretations.

So your correction is not a correction at all.  That is what I meant: for 
a few minutes there, all the stations were playing the same thing, so we 
were essentially back to the mono-signal America.

As for the rest of your post, I'm not sure I know what you are trying to 
say.  There is something you believe we are all going to recognize as 
terrifying or distressing about the image of American Blacks (forgive me 
if I maintain this ancient style; it points to the ridiculous binary 
system that is at the heart of the whole problem) celebrating. To my eyes 
that was a startling image, yes, but also what, refreshing?  I don't know.  
What it means is much more clear to you than to me. (I.D. ology!)

Try me again.........

Matthew Levy 


 > 
> 	No, not what it would be like if "we" had the same concerns, but 
> what it would be like if we only had ONE t.v. station, a precursor to the 
> apocalypse or proof of the POST - modern.  The modern subject dies 
> (Joseph K.), the post moderns subject recieves an aquital (Joseph O.J.).  
> 	However, eventhough it may have been a specticle for many, a 
> large majority of African-Americans seemed to view it as a ritual right 
> of passage.  Tremendous celebrations abounded at most AA schools.  For 
> some simulation is not metaphysical and in fact, does not exist.  Much to 
> the disappointment of myself and baudrillard, "Maybe the orgy still has 
> room for a few more genitals!!!"
> 
> 
> 

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