File spoon-archives/baudrillard.archive/baudrillard_2001/baudrillard.0109, message 40


Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 06:14:59 +0100 (BST)
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?eldorra=20mitchell?= <manynotone-AT-yahoo.co.in>
Subject: RE: Hello


-- Yes -- it is where humour of the average sort ends
and where the macabre and 'black' humour starts. So
let us laugh between our tears. 

--- Salwa Ghaly <sghaly-AT-sharjah.ac.ae> wrote: > Call
it a sardonic laugh: when on several lists you
> find people trying ever
> so feeably to contribute to the "manufacture of
> consent" by transferring an
> ideologically-saturated type of unnuanced blanket
> discourse worthy of the
> media industry to a supposedly
> theoretical/intellectual forum like this one.
> You can't help but shake your head and say "Jeez,
> these people think we're
> all bozos," or something.... But, you said it, this
> is where the humor ends.
> 
>   
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: eldorra mitchell
> To: baudrillard-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
> Sent: 9/18/01 5:25 AM
> Subject: RE: Hello
> 
> Agreed agreed. But where is the laugh? Or is it a
> case
> of I would laught if it was not so sad, or dangerous
> or....  
> --- Salwa Ghaly <sghaly-AT-sharjah.ac.ae> wrote: > This
> crap isn't worth responding to.  What the hell,
> > we all need some comic
> > relief these days!  

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