Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 18:38:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Shemina Keshvani <keshvani-AT-chass.utoronto.ca>
Subject: Re: objet darts




On Tue, 23 Jul 1996, dp89 wrote:

> I've been enjoying the recent discussions about the real, the fractal order, et
> al.  To keep this going i'd like to throw my two bent sense in.
> 
 So, once again,
> how do we read Baudrillard?  For all this use of his work in the celebration of
> this mythic space called cyberspace and the disappearance of the body,
> should we regard B. as someone who is elated or melancholic about such
> conditions?
> 
> dp
> 
> 

Perhaps we can regard him, at least, as "Apocalyptic" in the sense 
that the apocalypse can be seen as always disrupting the "work" of 
teleology, history and negativity. And even more interesting is the
 seductiveness of apocalypse.? Of course if he is apocalyptic, then he
 is alway already within that discourse (because its end is evasive ie 
always already implied),even in announcing the end of the apocalypse
--as he seems to in "Radical Thought". 


sk