Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 12:41:15 +0100 From: "Andrew F. Wilson" <a.wilson-AT-derby.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Nietzsche vs. Baud At 07:50 19/05/98 PDT, you wrote: >> Baudrillard takes Nietzsche's history one >> step further. He proclaims the end of the actual world (i.e. >> wirklichen Welt). What remains after Baudrillard? Nothingness. The >> existence of non-existence, i.e. the simulacrum that hides its own >> non-existence. >> >> - Soren >> >yeh. >i just read On Nihilism. N seemed to have an escape clause within his nihilism - yes truth died, yes God is dead, yeh yeh, metaphysics is a crock. but damnit, its all just words, and they aren't the world, just a part of it. they are a functional part of me, and i should put them to good use furthering my will to power (or by wallowing in my STD induced maddness...) >its a shame baud doesn't seem to be able to carry it that far. maybe the universiality of the simulacram is just a simulacra. >ha ah, >nik > oh i don't know, i think he does; with nietzsche the will is still rooted in subject centred agency, as i was saying before, baudrillard pace mcluhan strips away this anthropocentricity with the conditions of life world being determined by our status of simulacra. all we can have is pure nihilism as that is a precondition for our status as mirror people. we must be empty in order to be reflective objects. (and that is reflective, none of yer reflexivity here mate) andrew andrew f. wilson "Particle Accelerators: centre for social research Morality Degenerators" university of derby - Inner City Unit a.wilson-AT-derby.ac.uk
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