Jean Baudrillard. Image and Representation. 2004

[dantean]

Sorry, but--as with its Germanic philosophical forefathers (i.e., Heidegger)--French post mod philosophy-speak now strikes me as faux-profound. A pretty thin gruel, ideas-wise, for a great deal of spade-work required to follow the thread of the thought. Read Freud and forget Lacan, read Nietzsche and forget Heidegger, Derrida, Foucault, et. al. Better still, read Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats & forget the lot of 'em (except Nietzsche)! Grad school flashback time--oh, the horror! The horror!

[zaynzaynzayn]

The sound is secondary.

[AKCKProductions]

rfgd

[josedrillard]

A LA VERGA SIN BAUDRILLARD...

[AlloBallo]

YouTube is the perfect example of the "reciprocity" Baudrillard dreamed of that wasn't possible with T.V. medium. The producer/consumer model is now transgressed.

[tomsega]

Equally fascinating and flawed.

There's no way a theory so depoliticising and lacking in pragmatism could belong to the left. Yet Baudrillard pictures himself as 'more left than Marx'?

Baudrillard's work stands in itself like an ironic allegory for the cultural logic of late capitalism.

[merkwurdiglieber]

Baudrillard only says that he is "more left than Marx" because he resists the Marixist idea that cultural practices outside of production do not have value.

[ifoverton]

My political theory professor met Baudrillard when he was in grad school when Baudrillard spoke on his campus. He goes to a bar with Baudrillard an a Brazilian student studying abroad. My prof. starts spouting off his analysis of Baudrillards "Simulation and Simulacra," Debord and all that.

"So what do you think?" my prof asks Baudrillard

"Baudrillard takes a drink, looks at him, looks at the other student and says, "So... tell me about Brazil."

Jean, you are sorely missed.

[fleatheatre]

haha! :) Nice story.

[AnthonyBono]

It doesn't matter if folks get it or not. They're living it! Ever heard of youtube?

[BobHardy1]

Perfect comment .... "Game, Shot, and Match," I would say.

[sicknessuntodeath]

I actually made a similar critique in one of my former lives as lady of negotiable leisure in the backstreets of an unknown city in what is know known as Kent, my unread book was called "Reality, tings and stuff innit" and was'nt published in 1500BC because we only had spears and rabbits back then, and no playgrounds. I kick myself now. So please no comments of the so and so said this ages ago, because I was there first, spaceman.

[xorbi]

Nice guy, great outlook on life. Love him, All the best RIP

[derfeuerbach]

Rott In Pieces Jean Baudrillard - your words have confused millions.

[vivalastubas]

Wow, you're a bit of a nobhead arnt you.

[fredastaire1]

Did you graduate the womb?

No reply? Hm... yes, of course.

[rdazvd]

It is not his fault that you are irreductibly dumb.

[sachinketkar]

This critique of representation and the disappearance of the referent began with good old Saussure. These Po Stu folks are exploring possibilities and implications of Saussures' ideas.

[voglesque]

Couldn't believe it when he died. I read The Mirror of Production- it was wonderful, and then I saw the news on the 6th! So sad... and here I just discovered him!

[demirpla]

Good bye pessimist man! Who will we read now when another mother of all events takes place?

[tempesurfing]

Thank God he was so prolific!

[SGGG2]

Thanks Jean. Your words were not lost on all.

[herma57]

Che Bello; mille grazie.

[deleuzean]

Thank you for posting this. 1990: the year Baudrillard changed my life. 2007: the year his life ended. Thank you, Jean, for sharing your thoughts with us.

[beboplayer]

I can't believe he died, I haven't started Simulacrum yet, arrrrhh!

[charger666]

Thats right! THX for addin..

[Didgebaba]

R.I.P Jean. Your words have inspired millions.