File spoon-archives/baudrillard.archive/baudrillard_1999/baudrillard.9906, message 36


Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 11:54:15 -0400
Subject: Re: <.no subject>
From: "Robert Janiga" <rjaniga-AT-yorku.ca>


Hello,


>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.

Hmmmm... not sure what love's got to do with it.  Seduction doesn't equal
love in the "subroutine" that "I" move through.  It refers to a desire to be
led astray-- which is precisely what your postings seemed to be doing. 
Quotes, pure quotes, no subject, just lines from people I've never read,
appearing on the flat surface of my cold screen, no rhyme or reason, no time
nor season, just words.  But they aren't just "words posted on the
Internet."  In fact, they are digitized code that exist no-where (and they
lead astray, therefore).  And it's precisely this "no-where" that is so
seductive without a single hint or scent of love whatsoever.  Very much a
tale told by Buddha.  


>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. 

I don't think Baudrillard would say that one needs to be scared of
simulacra.  His is not a tale of fright or heroes or liberation (except the
latter is reserved for the sign).  No, B. has no desires whatsoever, just
inclings of the desert, a self stripped of all its desires and motivations.

robert from "no-where"
>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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