Jean Baudrillard

Interview taken in 2000 in Oslo by Truls LIe, previous editor of Le Monde diplomatique, Oslo. He is now the editor of DOX, the European Documentary Magazine. Se www.dokumentar.eu

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• philosophy
• Baudrillard
• death

[buskotteke]

Baudrillard on YouTube

Self-fulfilling Irony

[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.

[Palomablanca1978]

mumbling to diffikult to hear anything

[NASAHOAX]

NASA BEING EXPOSED AS LIARS

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[BenNCM]

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

[BenNCM]

@wenaolong You're right of course, but in a way, 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.

[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.

[wenaolong]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.