Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 20:18:19 GMT From: Julian Thomas <julian.thomas-AT-dial.pipex.com> Subject: Re: Warhol/sci-fi/turnips/death At 11:23 17/12/96 -0600, you wrote: >On Tue, 17 Dec 1996, Rachel Russell wrote: > >> It will not be Baudrillard who decides he is dead it will be some 'expert' >> who decides this.The expert will base their decision on their >> scientific/medical knowledge. This changes and is therefore relative to >> that culture or time. In this sense death is not absolute, the nature of >> knowledge means that nothing is absolute even death. >> Rachel > Another way of looking at this could be that B's comments on death are linked to his writing on the death of reality. The argument of the death of the author and the replacement of the real with the hyper - real, taken to an ultimate conclusion, imply that although the body dies, the system of representations within which the body percieves its existance goes on (and on and on). The body therefore becomes redundant. Death or life have little effect. Julian -------------------------------- Julian Thomas, 17 Fishers Way, Godmanchester, Huntingdon, Cambridge, PE18 8XE UK. julian.thomas-AT-dial.pipex.com phone: 01480 354646 fax: 01480 354647 mobile: 07050 017982
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