From: "nik" <gack-AT-acay.com.au>
Subject: Re: Fw: the perfect person
Date: Tue, 26 May 98 19:22:53 PDT



> What I meant was that Nik (and postmodernism in general) seems
> hopelessly caught in the imaginary of Baud's second-order simulacrum, 
> i.e. that the simulacrum produces reality, indeed IS reality (a
> collapse of sign and referent into an object-sign).
>
> 2. it masks and denatures a profound reality
i have already made my position on this point absolutely clear. THERE IS NO THING-IN-ITSELF. soren seems incapable of grasping this fact. go back and look at both my posts and erik's. soren, i don't know who your arguing with, but its not me. reality is just another sign, in a system of signs that have no referent.
nik