VirusHead - Mutating bits of contagious discourse, because language is a virus.

No kidding. Hell is open for business.
Of course, “hell” is not the best translation of “L’Enfer.” “Inferno” would be better, but Hell rings about right (if you would excuse the pun) for much of the current American audience .
[Aside: Have you ever looking into the meaning of "Lucifer"? Light-bearer, god of light, Venus, the [...]

I never thought of Baudrillard as an outlaw, despite his fascination with perfect crimes.
He may have stood somewhat outside the academic establishment, but in many ways that can only be considered a compliment.
The reality that we have created has overtaken us… and is creating us. To challenge how that happens, to describe it, even to [...]

“The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost its meaning.” - Jean Baudrillard
I remember a lecture given by Baudrillard at Emory. The crowd had transcripts of Baudrillard’s lecture, in case [...]

Jean Baudrillard is dead.
Horrible, terrible news. We were going to see him this summer.
I will write something about Baudrillard’s enormous influence on me, my thinking, and my life tomorrow. Perhaps I will be able to think more clearly then.
Tonight, I can only grieve. Tears keep falling, falling. I can’t process this at all. I [...]

I’ve added a new page - “About VirusHead.”
There is a short explanation of why the blog is named VirusHead.
There is also a long rambling section about theoryheads and postmodernism (only for the intensely curious).
I’ve also added a page dedicated to Jehovah’s Witnesses issues, news and resources. In addition to page links (to bits of the [...]

Jean Baudrillard, one of my all-time fave thinkers, has written a short piece on the torched cars and ransacked schools of France. "The Pyres of Autumn" argues that these events (among other things) call attention to the actual lack of a meanful social culture. He describes the ideological bankruptcy of the West as a "banalized, [...]