What follows is a long-ass Baudrillard post which began life as a collection of thoughts stimulated by Adam Wadley’s essay Transcommunism in the Transpolitical Age, a truly valiant effort to draw out some of the positive lessons in Baudrillard’s philosophy. […]
Aua dem kommenden Buch: Im Delirium der Simulation. Baudrillard Revisited Die englische Version kann man hier kaufen: https://forceincmilleplateaux.bandcamp.com/merch/in-the-delirium-of-the-simulation-baudrillard-revisited-by-achim-szepanski Es ist ein Nichts, das die Theorie sowohl sichtbar macht als auch ersetzt, offenbart und überdeckt. Es ist als eine Bedingung der
The eternal supply of reality has been exhausted in the process of digitalization, just as the biosphere of the earth has been used up in the course of capitalist valorization of natural resources. Ecological nostalgia is as unpromising as the
Digital Guillotine Anyone? A Guide to the Decomputation of Algocratic Regimes
Exzerpt from the book “In the Delirium of the Simulation. Baudrillard Revisted” : https://non.copyriot.com/in-the-delirium-of-the-simulation-baudrillard-revisited-by-achim-szepanski/ At important points in his study, Beller turns to the transformation of Marx’s reproduction cycles. The movement from image to code and back to a transformed
Excursus on Jonathan Beller’s World Computer
Exzerpt from the book “In the delrium of Simulation. Baudrillard Revisted.” As Baudrillard shows, simulation is not only an effect of political economy and thus also of a (quasi-)philosophy, but it is a constitutive process of the system itself. It
An exzerpt from In the Delirium of the Simulation. Baudrillard revisited. Radical thinking is always at the violent intersection of meaning and non-meaning, of truth and non-truth, of the continuity of the world and the continuity of nothingness. Ever since
Nothingsness, Emptiness, and Nihilism
Simulation 2 Simulation 2 Let’s take a closer look at Baudrillard’s concept of simulation. Simulation, as Rex Butler emphasised in his book in defence of the real in Baudrillard, does not imply the loss of reality, but is to be
In The Delirium of Simulation. Baudrillard Revisited (Out soon)
As we get closer to the release of our latest book In the Delirium of the Simulation: Baudrillard Revisited, we are able to start disseminating the material, beginning with this longer excerpt from Chapter 2 (A Metabox of Terms), entitled
DER BÖSE BAUCHREDNER Die Aufklärung ist nicht mehr nur eine Frage der Demokratie und einer guten Weltordnung, wie man uns glauben machen will, sondern ein noch viel radikaleres Stadium, das keinen Raum mehr für Strategien lässt, was die Generalstäbe zur
Karneval und Kannibalisierung ( Zweites Kapitel)
This principle can be considered the ‘modulus’ of Baudrillard’s thought. In mathematics, the ‘modulus’ describes the absolute value of a term, ignoring whether it is positive or negative: for instance, the ‘modulus’ of negative twelve and twelve is twelve. Along
One More Spiral in the Simulacrum: Jean Baudrillard’s Games with Reality
fírst published in: https://bluelabyrinths.com/2024/02/05/parasites-symbiotes-and-decoys-remembering-baudrillards-contaminated-discourse/?fbclid=IwAR2ekuRmrywKG7gjsO36oonGHwIbmV3DqUvOzElVN2-GZnsFnEDvtaHD3ew The parasite serves as a useful simulacrum for post-modernism. Post-modernity engages us with a kind of viral discourse, which seeks to comprehend an object without subsuming it under a system of concepts; without, that is, deploying
Parasites, Symbiotes and Decoys: Remembering Baudrillard’s Contaminated Discourse
“The former fascists have given in to the democratic game and handed over their flags and swastikas to some crazy people. And why not? That is the way of the men of power. Gossip comes and goes, political realism is
Poverty policy, disneyfied simulation of anti-fascism and white-washing of racism