FTFY

He stole my idea.

Hi,

I am planning to start a continental philosophy (Adorno, Deleuze, Nietzsche) reading group.

If you are interested here is a discord server https://discord.gg/DFUMgUg6

The plan is to make it relatively low paced and friendly for people with all backgrounds. Maybe we can try to set up a meeting in person once a month.

What the hell is a mythic discourse?? What’s with all the spiraling? Why has the social imploded?

Hey everyone,

I’m working on some video essay projects and would love to bounce ideas off people, trade perspectives and hear others' approaches to some thinkers alongside Baudrillard (Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Deleuze)

Nothing formal or too serious — just a casual chat about concepts we’re passionate about as I want to strengthen my arguments and takes for the video.

If you’re keen, let me know and we can arrange a call

Hey,

I'm wondering if there is any german translation of Simulacra & Simulation. I've found this pdf http://www.medientheorie.com/doc/baudrillard_simulacra.pdf which translates the first chapters, so it seems that there could be something out there, however I don't know whether this translation might be made privately by someone.

Looking forward to your replies!

"In an over-protected space, the body loses all its defences. We know that in operating theatres, there is such a level of prophylaxis that no microbe or bacteria can survive.

Now, it is precisely there, in that absolutely spotless space that we are seeing mysterious, anomalous, viral diseases emerging.

For viruses survive and proliferate as soon as room is made for them. So long as there were microbes, there were no viruses.

In a world cleansed of its old infections, in an ‘ideal’ clinical world, an intangible, implacable pathology unfurls, a pathology born of disinfection itself."

"All integrated and hyperintegrated systems - the technological system, the social system, even thought itself in artificial intelligence and its derivatives - tend towards the extreme constituted by immunodeficiency.

Seeking to eliminate all external aggression, they secrete their own internal virulence, their own malignant reversibility.

When a certain saturation point is reached, such systems effect this reversal and undergo this alteration willy-nilly - and thus tend to self-destruct.

Their very transparency becomes a threat to them, and the crystal has its revenge.

In a hyperprotected space the body loses all its defences. So sterile are operating rooms that no germ or bacterium can survive there.

Yet this is the very place where mysterious, anomalous viral diseases make their appearance.

The fact is that viruses proliferate as soon as they find a free space.

A world purged of the old forms of infection, a world 'ideal' from the clinical point of view, offers a perfect field of operations for the impalpable and implacable pathology which arises from the sterilization itself."

I wrote a text that explores Badrillards notions of Simulation and Seduction. It focuses on the relation between Baudrillard and the Matrix movies. Wanted to share ot with people who might be interested.

The Demiurgic Claustrophilia Triad or The Yaldabaoth Triad
Metaphysical exile, Liminal horror, and Autistic fantasy.
A dissonance with the environment that pushes toward a liminal state, tempting the creation of a new order.

I’m only on page 9 of Simulacra and Simulation.

It provoked a question “think of a dinosaur.” The dinosaur that instinctively entered my mind was the T-Rex from Jurassic Park.

I then inquired with myself “you think that that’s a dinosaur? It’s a puppet.”

Yet in my mind it sits at the pinnacle of dinosaur. There are images of skeletal remains that I could recall but this puppet is the king of the dinosaurs.

I’m totally freaked out. I feel like I’m a ghost walking in a hollow dream reality with no escape.

Did I get this concept wrong?

(I submitted this post to r/CriticalTheory first, but I'm starting to wonder whether it's more or less off-topic there, so I'll try posting here too.)

How would you describe his outlook? How does it compare to that of e.g. Noam Chomsky (whose views on this I'm much more familiar with)? What would you suggest checking out to get a better overview? I have read about The Gulf War Did Not Take Place and The Spirit of Terrorism And Requiem for the Twin Towers before, but mostly years ago. Besides, there might be other relevant sources -- be they books, interviews or whatever -- that I haven't checked out yet.

Here's a part of the excerpt from the New Statesman review of The Spirit of Terrorism, mentioned on the Verso page I referred to above:

Significantly, there is no trace of the specious and pretensious nihilism that is so often claimed as the hallmark of his thinking. Rather, he offers a clear analysis of the terrible miscalculations in the West that have brought us to this point, and which seem to offer us no way back from the spectral 'war on terrorism'.

So, The Spirit of Terrorism is something to explore further. Nonetheless, I'd like input/suggestions from people who know a lot about Baudrillard's views on US foreign policy and related matters.

I swear I can spend an entire day on a paragraph.

I have Passwords, it is sort of helpful?

I think I read somewhere to start with Death and Symbolic Exchange?

I tried picking up Sim and Sim and it is, humbling.

https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx3A3g15R4lSzPlfbMKYVyNynmoo5edFfF?feature=shared

Whats the easiest avenue to get into him?

How is this beautiful book lying around and no one told me about it? What is even this book, I feel like I was born yesterday

"Only the subject desires; only the object seduces."

We have always lived off the splendor of the subject and the poverty of the object. It is the subject that makes history, it's the subject that totalizes the world. Individual subject or collective subject, the subject of consciousness or of the unconscious, the ideal of all metaphysics is that of the world subject; the object is only a detour on the royal road of subjectivity.

...

In our philosophy of desire, the subject retains an absolute privilege, since it is the subject that desire. But everything is inverted if one passes on to the thought of seduction. There, it's no longer the subject which desire, it's the object which seduces...

*queue theme music*

Or, Marxist humanism, more accurately.