Date: 18 NOV 96 09:28:43 CST
From: SRoberts-AT-faegre.com
Subject: Crash?


Alan Wrote:
 
 
> I certainly don't want this thing about "understanding" 
> Baudrillard to be the
> tone of our discussions, and I never intended that. I make 
> no claim to
> understand Baudrillard. I have been trying to understand 
> him on and off for the
> past 20 years, and with limited success. I am always 
> coming back and re-reading
> the texts and realizing that I previously mis-read them. I 
> agree with Joshua
> about "using" Baudrillard or "putting him into play" being 
> a good thing. I agree
> about Delany. I also enjoy reading Baudrillard next to 
> Ballard and Philip K.
> Dick -- of course it was Baudrillard's essays on Ballard 
> and Dick which got me
> reading them in the first place. By the way, Joshua, have 
> you seen "Crash"?

 
So, has anyone seen "Crash"?  Has anyone heard what B. thought of it?

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