Jean Baudrillard

[Palomablanca1978]

mumbling to diffikult to hear anything

[NASAHOAX]

NASA BEING EXPOSED AS LIARS

watch?v=BnKlHgDBjUI

[BenNCM]

You're right of course, but in a way normalcy, makes more sense than normality

[bbravo2]

thanks for posting this video. it's valuable for the few minutes he spends talking about his history with foucault.

[sinkholed]

Baudrillard's prose is regarded by most as being remarkably dense, but I've always found this thought odd, and I don't think I'm alone here -- hardly true from my perspective. I find his words and style to be effortless, smooth, and entirely engaging. I have FUN when reading Baudrillard, most importantly. He doesn't take himself seriously, His sense of humor is not to be cast aside. It's there, however dry. My favorite philosopher, by far, even though he rejects that title.

[PenylanHill]

I agree totally. If the reader pays attention while reading, Buadrillard is very clear and a lot easier to read than many claim. McLuhan is the same.

[lightepiphany]

I absolutely agree. JB is the greatest soulbrother since the other JB. It takes me forever to get through his books, but it's a slow pleasurable experience. You just bite off one phrase at a time. I'm slow, but I can't imagine a world without the original JB.

[KeevayMusic]

HOW I WANT TO DIE...the Dark Disturbing Video from Mysterious CATMAN COHEN

"I'll take a bullet from a gun

A knife wound in my chest

That's how I Want to die

Just like a Catcher in the Rye."

[buskotteke]

Baudrillard on YouTube

Self-fulfilling Irony

[deadlyvengeance222]

It's no coincidence that all these post-structuralists write about people like Antonin Artaud... They find in his irrationality and contempt for normalcy a legacy to uphold, to better equip them with the capacity to deface the infallibility of Science, Truth and Western Civilization within the realm of human sciences...

[wenaolong]

"Normalcy" is not a word. You and anyone who uses it is, shall we say, in need of a dictionary. It is "normality."

[BenNCM]

@wenaolong You're right of course, but in a way, makes more sense than normality.

[mjperen]

Dforce- not too bad of a comparison with andy. However, I'd say both will have a rather successful legacy, they are as accessible as they are controversal.

[DFORCE1969]

The andy warhol of 20th century philosophy;

A great self referential bullshitter.+To be fair,he is only a reflection of the shallow consumer-capitalist system which spawned him;He failed to transcend his era and therefore his intellectual legacy will probably remain obscure and marginal.

[0neironaut]

bullshitter? but you just solved one of his jokes! "you can't ask someone who has himself become an icon for a solution to the problem of the image."

failing to understand something is a poor excuse to write it off. Then again, you do make for a nice specimen of "ressentiment".

[PhotonDrive]

A thousand philosophies, languages, and cultures - but they ALL pump gas in their cars! Never think of the absurd, unconsciousable waste and destruction this entails - except abstractly around the dinner table? Eliminate this one primal act - the gas pump, and humanism might begin to mean something.

[CadaverSplatter]

The simulacrum does not exist in reality, because it is an abstract visual representation. It is, in reality, a singularity, disconnect from the history it might aim at representing, and as such, we should be very critical of the realities offered by such abstract visual offerings.

[SGGG2]

If you took the TIME and EFFORT to READ and UNDERSTAND Baudrillard, you'd find he that doesn't not deny suffering, he simply doesn't dwell on it. His philosophical stance opposes Liberal Humanism-- in the essays "No Pity for Sarajevo" and "The Animals: Territory and Metamorphoses" exposes how hippocritcal and impotent it actually is. Likewise, "The Art of Dissapearing" follows a strain of thought that it Gnostic and Manichaean. There are others forms of thought other than global humanism.

[sandokant2007]

Yeah right, "he was right" specially in this clip were he can barely explain himself about Foucault's death of AIDS with his Very Stupid Theory of "death as the art of disappearing". Please, Mr. Baudrillard, tell me: What is the art of death of a malnourished Ethiopian child? the art of hunger? PLEASE,

STOP DEIFYING THIS ULTRA RIGHT WING PSEUDO PHILOSOPHER once and for all!!!

[tomnunn07]

The question put to him was totally inane, and Baudrillard, then 70 years old, was answering it in his THIRD language. Nor is there anything "right wing" about him. For most of the 90s he contributed articles to the left-wing newspaper Liberation, and on occasion contributed pieces to the New Left Review. Please, try to do a little reading and research before posting such replies.

[mangojimmy]

keen awareness or reality is a little like visualising the edge of the universe, you can over do it and lose perspective. Baudrillard's theory of simulacrum is a visualisation tool, but let's not be blinded to the forest by the trees.

[utuberculosis2007]

he was a genius and great thinker. R.I.P

[sandokant2007]

¿"he was a genius and great thinker"? Please, spare me.

[J5MARLON]

I will never want to read him again, but everytime I am on Youtube or watch the news I feel he was right.

[sandokant2007]

Yeah right, "he was right" specially in this clip were he can barely explain himself about Foucault's death of AIDS with his Very Stupid Theory of "death as the art of disappearing". Please, Mr. Baudrillard, tell me: What is the art of death of a malnourished Ethiopian child? the art of hunger? PLEASE,

STOP DEIFYING THIS ULTRA RIGHT WING PSEUDO PHILOSOPHER once and for all!!!

[J5MARLON]

He would say that the child does not exist. Because we only see the child on telivsion or computer. He has a philosophy "Out of site. Out of mind. We as viewers only see image of a starving child and do continue living our lives as if it did not matter. If we react to an image of a starving child then we are responding to a simulucrum a symbol. This is his philosophy, I am more of Arendt than a Bauldrillard.

[sachinketkar]

Death as an art of disappearing. Is our very existence a simulacrum monsieur Baudrillard?

[edbingey]

Surely if one exaggerates 'reality' everything seems a troubling compromise of that 'reality'? Baudrillard is something like a contemporary poet, who critiques the nature of post-modernism which itself was born out of a revolt against an over-determination of 'reality' namley modernism/structuralism ect. All that's required is perspective surely, the one thing poet-philosopher Baudrillard resists.

[sandokant2007]

Please, Mr. Baudrillard, tell me: What is the art of death of a malnourished Ethiopian child? the art of hunger?

[isidormarcel]

have you ever seen an ethiopian malnourished child?, I have not, but i have seen a lot of concerts about them , this is simulation/hyreality.

[sandokant2007]

I didn't know you were using You Tube, Mr. Baudrillard. Thank You for your kind comment, and let me tell you that to care about other people's suffering and do something about it is not a simulation of any kind, it is called empathy and love. But, again, not everyone has a dictionary of new self coined words like you, Mr. Great Philosopher of All the Ages. Again, spare me.

[0neironaut]

bahahah, you dont "empathize" or "love" those "malnourished Ethiopian children"! You love your 'suffering' at the expense of theirs!

What a moral Hero -- how fortunate you should be that people suffer so you can feel good about yourself.