“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 […]
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
Like advertising, fashion, and cinema before it, music rules today as a dominant ideogram of power. Not a reflection of a serious materialist power which emanates elsewhere and that precedes it, music is a real ruling laboratory of the age
… If I had to name the present state of things, I would say that every explosive moment in the modern world is a moment of liberation in some area. The liberation of the political and the sexual, the liberation
Base matter is external and foreign to human aspirations, and it refuses to allow itself to be reduced to the great ontological machines resulting from these aspirations. —Georges Bataille, Base Materialism and Gnosticism For Bataille, religion is not the revelation of
The Horror of Capitalism: Consuming the Body of God
What is there beyond the end? Beyond the end extends virtual reality, the horizon of a programmed reality in which all our functions—memory, emotions, sexuality, intelligence— become progressively useless. Beyond the end, in the era of the trans-political, the transsexual,
Ecstasy of the social: The masses. More social than the social.
Vortrag, gehalten an der HBK Saar Kurze Einführung zum spekulativen Kapital. Wann immer ein professioneller Trader einen Trade beginnt, so versucht er, die involvierten Risiken zu bewerten. Prinzipiell kann man heute drei Strategien des derivativen Handels unterscheiden: Arbitrage, Hedging und
Kunst und Dervivat. Die Performance des Neuen
Laut McKenzie Wark fungiert das Kunstwerk heute als ein Derivat seiner Simulation. (Wark 2016) Wir würden eher sagen, es fungiert in seiner Verbreitungsweise und Diskursivierung ähnlich einem Derivat. Es gibt verschiedene Arten der Simulation; es kann ein MP3 sein, das
Kunst, Musik und Derivat (Erste Generalisierung der Einsprüche)(Ultrablack of Music 8)
The unlikely parable that Xenophon relates between Socrates and their mutual friend Aristippus of Cyrene serves as a lead in to the subject of this post. Socrates had observed his friend Aristippus for some time and felt that the young
The Hedonistic Imperative: The Seduction of Hypercapitalism
The human species is doubtless the only one to have invented a specific mode of disappearance that has nothing to do with Nature’s law. pdf here Foto: Bernhard Weber