File spoon-archives/baudrillard.archive/baudrillard_1998/baudrillard.9805, message 115


From: "nik" <gack-AT-acay.com.au>
Subject: Re: The existence of existence
Date: Wed, 20 May 98 23:06:09 PDT




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> Hey Nik,
>
> I won't comment on your last post. The abuse of Derrida's
> "there's nothing outside the text"-statement is well-known.

there's nothing but whips and chains in my house...

> What I was thinking is this: Is postmodern philosophy a
> capitalist trick that seeks to expand the academic market beyond the 
> relatively restricted sphere of "traditional" philosophy?

interesting...
the thing i like most about this idea is that it assumes that philosophy is a product, like other produce in a market. if this is so, then it's use-value would have the same status as the commodities that it resembles. and what does baud have to say about use-value? this would make the entire history of philosophy nothing more than a self-perpetuating process, a history of error.
baud's code (as it is), is assumed to be universal in application. i think this is nothing more than people taking baud's affection for exageration too seriously. the capitalist model may inform the majority of relational models, but it is not the only model in existence. other relationships are not carbon copies of the capitalist model of exchange.
i wonder, is your (apparent) revulsion at the idea of an "expanded" philosophical "market" analogious to the musical purists revulsion at his favorite bands success? and isn't this revulsion born of the loss of privillage? if philosophy is just another cultural product ready for market, why restrict the buyers?
nik


   

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