Day: November 1, 2020
Cancel Reality
« Á la recherche du réel » titrait naguère le physicien Bernard d’Espagnat à propos de notre « micro » monde (les « quanta ») qu’il serait possible de transcrire métaphoriquement au niveau « macro » (le réel…
America and China as Hyperreal: Jean Baudrillard and Bo Yang
The starting points of the present reflection are Jean Baudrillard’s America and Bo Yang’s The Ugly Chinaman. Yang uses his leading concept, the Chinese soy paste vat, as a metaphor…
“Things Surpass Themselves”
FR Recently you were criticised as the prototype of an ‘administrator of theoretical emptiness’ who has taken up a depoliticised position. Not long ago you yourself wrote that today every…
A Matrix of Melancholia: Mark Fisher and Jean Baudrillard
‘Cinema is the art of appearances, tells us something about reality itself. It tells us something about how reality constitutes itself. There is an old gnostic theory that our world…
Re-literation and Remixing the Self on Social Media
Steve Gennaro and Blair Miller York University, Toronto, Canada (Re)Mapping Remixes In theorizing about the self and digital media, it is worthwhile to posit a certain way of thinking about…
A final, paradoxical wink …
… comes to us, perhaps came to us, is quite possibly always coming to us, from our dear friend, our teacher, to remind us, to quite possibly never let us…
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