Today, the metastasis of musical production, circulation and technology makes music always available and collapses any distinction between background and foreground music. Music simulates a vital activity, is omnipresent and thus hyper-audible. Music is administered as a permanent drone and […]
Stereo: Ultrablack of Music and Baudrillard
Warum heute noch Baudrillard? Sicherlich sind heute viele der poststrukturalistischen Science-Fiction-Texte „dated“, und da machen manche von Baudrillard, abgesehen von der Zweifelhaftigkeit seiner Simulationstheorie, keine Ausnahme. Aber es ist gerade die Normalität der vielen von Baudrillard beschriebenen Phänomene, die einen
Das Einkaufszentrum als Sarkophag der ware
In truth, Bataille seems to me far less an intellectual predicament than a sexual and religious one, transecting the lethargic suicide upon which we are all embarked. To accept his writings is an impossibility, to resist them an irrelevance. One
Wo beginnt der Stereoeffekt, der Punkt, an dem die Hi-Fi-Anlage so unbrauchbar raffiniert wird, dass die Musik in der Besessenheit von ihrer Wiedergabetreue verloren geht? Wo ist der Punkt, an dem das Soziale so nutzlos ausgefeilt wird, dass es selbst
Stereo: Ultrablack of Music und Baudrillard
‘In a system that orders you to live and to capitalize life, the death drive is the only alternative.’ —Jean Baudrillard ‘The zeroing of death amounts to the death of death. It is for this reason that the atheist can
The Necrophilic World: Death-Drive, Capitalism, and our Posthuman Future
Baudrillard ties the instability of the system to the implosion, by which he implies that the system collapses in itself (and does not explode by a nuclear war, for example). It is in involution, that is, it abruptly collapses upon
Baudrillard bindet die Instabilität des Systems an die Implosion, womit er andeutet, dass das System in sich kollabiert (und nicht durch einen nuklearen Krieg etwa explodiert). Es befindet sich in einer Involution, bricht also an einem Punkt schlagartig in sich
“The world is an illusion.” —Valentinus “…images precede the Real.” —Jean Baudrillard “What I call Integral Reality is the perpetrating on the world of an unlimited operational project whereby everything becomes real, everything becomes visible and transparent, everything is ‘liberated’…”.1 Child
The behavioral and reception patterns of the masses today consist mostly of repetitive habits, whereby they, as users on the Internet, by no means remain passive, but rather constantly involve themselves in the pseudo-turbulent events via the social networks in
Note: Earlier versions of this paper were presented as two keynote addresses in 2018. First, at the 2nd International and Multidisciplinary Conference on Baudrillard Studies – ‘Applied Baudrillard’ – held in Oxford, England (September 5th to 7th). My opening keynote
Baudrillard’s Photographic Theory
If I were asked to characterize the present state of affairs, I would describe it as ‘after the orgy’ . The orgy in question was the moment when modernity exploded upon us, the moment of liberation in every sphere. Political
Baudrillard schreibt im und durch die Systeme hindurch. Er unterlässt es wohlweislich Alternativen zu ihnen vorzuschlagen oder bunte Utopien auszupinseln, sondern er argumentiert gegen sie innerhalb ihrer eigenen Bedingungen und Logiken. Baudrillard zufolge muss man dies tun, weil das System