Ultrablack Landscapes
Let’s take a look at Caspar David Friedrich’s painting The Monk by the Sea: the seemingly infernal blackness that covers the earth does not come from the sky but seems to rise from a black sea that is recognizable only […]
PhiloFiction
Baudrillard’s Subject
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.
The digital art exhibition ”The Other Landscapes”; How to expand and remix details of nature?
Text by: William Jourdain Translation: Jan Heintz This is the descriptive text seeking to theorize The Other Landscapes, a multi-faceted digital art exhibition at Expression art gallery bringing together works by four artists as well as a theoretical text by
The digital art exhibition ”The Other Landscapes”; How to expand and remix details of nature?
Das Weltspiel
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
Digitale Guillotine gefällig? Leitfaden zur Enteignung algokratischer Regime
Der ewige Vorrat an Wirklichkeit hat sich im Prozess der Digitalisierung ebenso erschöpft wie die Biosphäre der Erde im Zuge der kapitalistischen Verwertung der natürlichen Ressourcen. Dabei ist ökologische Nostalgie ebenso wenig aussichtsreich wie die Illusion einer vordigitalen Welt. Wir
Digitale Guillotine gefällig? Leitfaden zur Enteignung algokratischer Regime
ENTROPOLOGY
At the end of the second decade of the twentyfirst century, it has become de rigueur to speak not only of an Anthropocene but of a post-Anthropocene, whose template has been provided by that historical fissure in which the late industrial World
Gott, Mensch, Tier
Als Nietzsche vor fast einhundertfünfzig Jahren seine Erkenntnis vom Tod Gottes formulierte, dachte er, dass diese beispiellose Erkenntnis die Existenz der Menschen auf Erden grundlegend verändern würde. “Wohin bewegen wir uns jetzt?” – schrieb er – ”Ist unser Leben nicht
Nothingsness, Emptiness, and Nihilism
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
One More Spiral in the Simulacrum: Jean Baudrillard’s Games with Reality
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
In the Delirium of the Simulation: Baudrillard Revisited by Achim Szepanski
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In the Delirium of the Simulation: Baudrillard Revisited by Achim Szepanski
Parasites, Symbiotes and Decoys: Remembering Baudrillard’s Contaminated Discourse
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
Deviant Gestures: Deleuze’s Communicative Disruption
For Deleuze, the creation and conveyance of meaning requires not a strict fidelity to an original idea, message or image but rather its deformation. The forces causing such disfigurations operate in gesture, vocalisation and text, with one level sometimes disrupting
Deviant Gestures: Deleuze’s Communicative Disruption