File spoon-archives/baudrillard.archive/baudrillard_1998/baudrillard.9803, message 20


Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 11:20:39 -0800
From: "Evan A. Leeson" <evan-AT-xfind.com>
Subject: Re: A possible "sellout"?


At 11:44 AM 3/10/98 +0000, you wrote:
>This is unfair - three against one.

It's not about against or for.

>Evan, 
>
>> No, no! That's not what I said. I said the code is a single
>> configuration of deeper Western Philosophical categories that have
>> been operative since Plato. The fact that we discuss the Code in the
>> terms you use (trancedental signified for example) shows these
>> assumptions are still operative. I suggested Baudrillard's category
>> "ecstatic" captures the phenomena. Ecstatic presumes it's precursor:
>> alienation. The vast and diverse forms of alienation present in
>> philosophy are also manifestations. You can't have ecstasy without
>> the preceding separation. What's interesting is that the ecstasy is
>> empty, which shows the emptiness of the concept of alienation as
>> well. Hyperreality is getting to the top of Everest only to find a
>> Coke machine and a Gap store.
>
>Please explain what you mean by a "single configuration of deeper W. 
>Philosophical categories", and why this configuration should be 
>conceptualized in terms of the Code and not in terms of the 
>"referent" or the "foundation"? Is hyperreality not about the 
>abolition of those categories (e.g. truth, reason, rationality, 
>causality)? If yes, how can it (?!)  still be operative? Thanks!

I don't have time to do this right now, but will on the weekend. I'll try
to provide some textual evidence this time instead of using my own words
exclusively. This will mean digging my Baudrillard books out of the storage
locker, but hey, maybe this will be the beginning of something big. Maybe
I'll quit my job and go back to school. Maybe I'll become Baudrillard's
interpreter for the world. Maybe monkeys will fly out of my butt. Anyway,
if you are interested, look for something on Saturday.

evan
Evan A. Leeson	
Xfind Systems Inc.
voice: 250-216-0043

   

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