File spoon-archives/baudrillard.archive/baudrillard_1998/baudrillard.9803, message 55


From: "Soren Pedersen" <122509816228-AT-post2.tele.dk>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 16:04:02 +0000
Subject: Re: A possible "sellout"?



> >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.

The historical memory of hyperreality might be short, but I have 
noticed neither postings nor monkeys.

-Soren


   

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