“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
One can start from Marx’s famous formula that history first appears as an authentic event and then repeats itself as a farce. Modernity can thus be imagined as the initial adventure of the European West and then as a huge
Carnival and Cannibal (first chapter)
Die Simulation (re)produziert Realität damit in einer spezifischen Weise der Überdrehung, aber auch der Verdrehung, und integriert die beiden Momente in sich fast ununterscheidbar, wobei ständig ein Übermaß an Realität und damit an Fettleibigkeit entsteht: »Es ist das Zuviel an
Für Baudrillard ist die Implosion immer auch eine Folge des Verschwindens der Ursachen und Wirkungen der Macht. Mit dem Kausalitätsprinzip erzeugt die Ursache die Wirkung. Ursachen haben also immer einen Sinn und ein Ende, führen nie zur Katastrophe (sie kennen
The fake death, the simulated corpse, the staging of human remains evokes more of the human end than the real thing. Jeremy Millar’s Self Portrait of a Drowned Man represents Millar’s own fictionalized death by drowning, its depicted removal thereby
. Stratagem of the Corpse Dying with Baudrillard, a Study of Sickness and Simulacra By Gary J ShipleyForeword by William Pawlett https://anthempress.com/stratagem-of-the-corpse-32647?fbclid=IwAR0XMzPOcZz7N2DnVnqb7xyORgi7m1GEzNd_l4J1S5d5PSAQ8HJFek-01dA Es wird Filmaufnahmen vom Ende von allem geben, und wir sehen sie jetzt, und ihr hervorstechendstes Merkmal ist
The world is purely parodic… each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form… (Georges Bataille, “The Solar Anus”) Perhaps artificial intelligence (socalled) will finally do for “literature” in the 21st century
This forthcoming book is a follow up of “Die Ekstase der Spekulation. Kapitalismus im Zeitalter der Katastrophe.” Man könnte die These hinsichtlich der Problematisierung des Begriffs der Geschichte dann so formulieren: Die Geschichte war nur wegen des Endes der Geschichte
Exzerpt from the book: The Delirium of Simulation. Essays on Baudrillard
For Baudrillard, the attacks on the World Trade Center were the first and the last symbolic event of global significance. With the World Trade Center, terrorism destroyed the center of Western imperialism that existed worldwide. The terrorist events thereafter have
The uncertainty to which we are subject results, paradoxically, from an excess of positivity, from an ineluctable drop in the level of negativity. A kind of leukaemia has taken hold of our societies – a kind of dissolution of negativity
Introduction I am a nihilist. If it is nihilistic to be obsessed by the mode of disappearance, and no longer by the mode of production, then I am a nihilist.1 The question announced in the title of this paper, for
The phrase ‘really existing’ in my title is intended to echo the common prefix to Soviet state and other socialisms thought to have at various times operated as the dominant economic mode in a given country. That such a phrase
Simulacramen: Fight Club and The Hyper-Revolution of the ‘Really Existing’ Man