File spoon-archives/baudrillard.archive/baudrillard_1999/baudrillard.9906, message 35


From: CathB2-AT-aol.com
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 10:41:35 EDT
Subject: Re: <.no subject>


In a message dated 6/28/99 5:47:22 PM Central Daylight Time, rjaniga-AT-yorku.ca 
writes:

<< Can an "I" also be a "subroutine"?  Wherefore does the "I" emerge?  
Although
 I am lured by your quotes something drives me to question them,to forgo a
 premature seduction.  What is it, this drive that prevents me from sucumbing
 to the evil demon?  Am "I" even making sense? and Does it matter?
  >>

I'm trying to decide what's the matter. Fearfully free willy-nilly. However,

Seduced by words posted on the Internet?  Surely no one is that stupid?  Do 
you really think some dope is heading to a lover's tryst high atop the 
Verazano Bridge? Some gentle, prayerful novice stealing out of the Convent 
for Encounters of the Wrong Kind?  Surely not in today's world with Derrida 
for Dummies and Lacan for the Lacking! A word of warning, though, don't 
footnote them for Graduate Journals; confessions of that sort are better left 
with Friar Tuck.

What really worries me is a realworld problem.  Baudrilard-Big Dog; Me, 
little dog. Yap. Yap.  Anyone knows that you don't mess with The French 
Intellectual of Our Times.  It just made me mad that ya'll were trashing 
Matrix.  I do not watch TV and I do not go to many movies.  Madwoman of Waco. 
 But I like liberation stories, and y'all are just full of it anyway-- 
Baudrillardasses as we say in Texas.  Putting on your Euro intellectual, 
serious, woe is me, what will become of the world superior suits. We have 
heard it all before.  Anyway, I ain't scared of no simulacra, buster. No one 
in Waco has ever read Baudrillard, even heard of him, so if he quotes me as 
an example, no one I know will ever know.  As long as I don't irritate any 
screenwriters, other than Bill P, my name writ in water, uncoffined 
unknelled, unknown etc. 

As for what I meant by my posting--don't ask me.  I haven't the foggiest.  My 
best guess is that it means two opposite things at the same time.  I have 
caught a virus from my computer. Hard to resist.

 I know I should look up the history of Lawrence of Arabia before I type 
quotations in a lofty manner without finishing the book, but I thought I 
remembered the ending from the movie.  

Yours truly,
Itinerant iteration

   

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