File spoon-archives/baudrillard.archive/baudrillard_1996/96-11-27.192, message 29


Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 23:23:02 +1000 (EST)
From: Brendan Harkin <s_harkin-AT-eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: Re; slow reading


I'm sorry but the discussions you recall were not _actually_ discussions but
only simulations of discussions pretending to discuss 'simulations'.

>At 04:10 PM 28/05/96 -0700, you wrote:
>Ugh. No there isn't.
>
>I'm sorry but I'vee been on and off this list since what seems like Spring
>95, and I seem to remember 3 separate discussions of "simulation" at three
>separate times. If everyone here is new except me, and you REALLY want to
>discuss simulations (I would recommend "Simulations and Simulacra" and "In
>The Shadow of Silent Majorities" and perhaps "Fatal Strategies"), then go
>forth and discuss. But if not, then i have to ask, why are we always
>doubling back and rehashing dead horses? Not that I expect us to
>continually move forward in ever-more-enlightened debate, but can't we at
>least move on to other areas?
>
>A hui hou,
>R.
>
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