File spoon-archives/baudrillard.archive/baudrillard_2002/baudrillard.0212, message 23


Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 12:52:52 -0800 (PST)
From: Daniel Smith <hyosho-AT-yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: The end of history


Nice to see the list active.

Re linear ideas of history and endism, might I point
out an excellent book by Scott Bukataman, 'Terminal
Identity'? It's largely an examination of various
forms of science fiction, but it illustrates some of
the theoretical points mentioned working in a
practical way.

His argument is that the most important thing for a
(post)modern understanding of identity is terminals -
endings, beginnings, points of interface (input/output
ports), the places where linear tracks finish. We (and
I use the noun loosely) are no longer interested in
progression per se - the journey into space is no
longer interesting in itself, merely the destination.

There's a lot more complicated stuff in there, but
it's worth a look, and along with Baudrillard, Donna
Harraway (and Derrida, of course) it makes a
refreshing antidote to Fukuyama's model.

Hyosho

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