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 play against it, is not the same thing as being an outlaw. He refused to be pressured into a mindset that had ceased…
“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 his accent was too overwhelming for them. People flipped pages like it was the Bible. I just looked and listened. I had no trouble…
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 am devastated. Oh, Jean. Farewell, dear one. “Contagion is not merely active within each system; it operates between systems.” “Consider the recent release…
It’s been raining steadily all day. I’ve had a matching headache. When I outside to make sure water wasn’t anywhere it wasn’t supposed to be, I observed a couple of new baby fishes in the pond, and buds opening on the hydrangeas. The daffodils are knocked down – whether because of the rain or because I probably didn’t plant the bulbs deep enough, I don’t know. By the edge of the deck, I saw a chipmunk. It was eating a…
I am a serious fan of Joe Frank. He is the radio noir guru of my soul. I have been listening to him since the eighties. He was the joy of my Friday nights, and did much to get me through a difficult graduate program in philosophical theology and ethics. From 1986 until 2002, Joe produced four Series: “Work in Progress,” “In the Dark,” “Somewhere Out There,” and “The Other Side.” Late Friday night, “Work in Progress” (from KCRW Santa…
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