Jean Baudrillard

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.

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.

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.

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."

Baudrillard on YouTube

Self-fulfilling Irony

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.

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".

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.

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...

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