File spoon-archives/baudrillard.archive/baudrillard_1998/baudrillard.9805, message 26


Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 15:58:59 -0700
From: "Evan A. Leeson" <evan-AT-xfind.com>
Subject: Re: attention!


I tried to answer this question with my previous post on the importance of
B. For me B. is a radical thinker - and this seperates him from most of the
folk writing today. I am disatisfied with the state of things and I read B.
and others to help articulate why I am disatisfied and what might be done.
Some might suggest Baudrillard is the last person to read for these
purposes, but I disagree.

At 05:16 PM 5/4/98 EDT, you wrote:
>I have a question. Why do we really care about what this dude Jean
>Baudrillard says and does anyway? Are we parasites? Can't we do our 
>thinking? Or are we using him as a jumping board to realize our own
>potential? What makes this dude so cool that we, poor college students
>stuff our minds with him?
>
>
>
Evan A. Leeson	
Xfind Systems Inc.
voice: 250-216-0043

   

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