File spoon-archives/baudrillard.archive/baudrillard_1999/baudrillard.9904, message 41


From: kellner-AT-ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 12:15:14 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Re: The code, JB, Best and Kellner


Gary:
You should read books before you comment on them. Our POSTMODERN THEORY is
neither a glorification nor a hatchet job but an explication and what we
call "critical interrogation" that discerns useful and problematic
aspects. AND we have a nuanced reading of Baudrillard's extremely complex
relation to postmodern theory. Check it out in the website on my sig file,
Cheers, DK

On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Gary Norris wrote:

> the best and kellner book is at fault because it is a glorification of 
> pomo discourse...
> 
> they think jb is a postmodernist...funny, really...
> 
> 
> as concerns the code
> 
> i was carrying it around in my backpocket and accidently lost it in the 
> laundry...from what i remember it had to with rain and shampoo...rubbish 
> actually
> 
> 
> gary
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Hi.  Me again with a question.  Someone please let me know if I become
> > bothersome.  Just trying to get the most out of my reading.
> > 
> > Before I started into JB (my gf, a phil. of art type demands I use 'JB'
> > rather than 'Baud') I read a Best & Kellners Postmodernism text.  IIRC,
> > they chastised JB for never really explaining what the "code" is and
> > how it works.
> > 
> > I've just finished the System of Objects section which describes the
> > code and I find it fairly obvious what the code is and how it would
> > work.  I certainly could not give a logical equation for the precise
> > relationship between objects and subjects, however, I'm not sure this
> > is required.  
> > 
> > What is it exactly that Best & Keller want from JB?  Have I been overly
> > sympathetic in my reading and/or missed something?  Or are they just
> > picky to a fault?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Josh
> > 
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Douglas Kellner, Dept of Philosophy, Univ of Texas, Austin, TX 78712
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Web sites: Postmodern theory= http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~kellner/pm/pm.html
Critical theory= http://www.uta.edu/english/dab/illuminations/


   

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