File spoon-archives/baudrillard.archive/baudrillard_1997/baudrillard.9709, message 14


Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 08:41:56 +1000
From: Toby <s324057-AT-student.uq.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Interview Request


> "Diana's dead"
> "I don't believe it"
> "God, it's so unreal"

It has been a running joke in my household, to proclaim that 'Diana is
dead', pretending, as does the media that this event is still news, in
the sense that it is new, recent, and we have not already heard about
it. Yesterday, I had the following exchange:

- Guess what?
- What?
- Diana died!
- Oh, for a minute I thought you were going to say that she wasn't dead
anymore.

Now, what the hell does this mean? Is this just a manifestation of the
sense that media phenomena exist in a parallel reality?


   

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