File spoon-archives/baudrillard.archive/baudrillard_1998/baudrillard.9808, message 7


From: "Sadeq Rahimi" <sadeq_rahimi-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: ICQ
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 11:55:55 PDT



>Human existence has entered a phase where life is defined by the 
>attempt to bypass the rigidity of the human body. 

How exactly is life defined in this phase?


>All social constructs in the 
>'real' world such as love, friendship, family have reached such a 
>degree of artificiality (transparency or evilness, according to 
>Baudrillard) that we would all be better off without them. On the 
>Net, virtual friendship, virtual love, even virtual political 
>antagonism, already flourishes to such a degree that it is hard not 
>to be optimist (for those who have access, that is).

Soren, am I right to see this as your romanticism?  Had the 'real' world 
constructs not reached 'such a degree of artificiality', would
you have stuck to the 'real thing'?  Is it simply a virtual replacement 
for those constructs and emotions that you are looking for then?





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