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Collage: the Stuff of PoMo
2009-05-13 13:21:00 Administrator's Note: One of my Corcoran College undergraduates wrote the following essay on collage as ?the reproduction and recontextualization of signs.? The student has requested me to list the author's name as ?Yon Zois.?I asked Zois for permission to post the paper here because of its fascinating theories on visual art expressed as ?message? and a novel (if somewhat brutally cynical) depiction of the malevolent inclination of that message. The assaultive aspects of representation are too often critically neglected and Zois suggests interesting possibilities for further investigation of the ?dominant discourse? of media communication. For within the verbal structure of semiotics lies an implicit coercion that Zois reveals to be a profound interpretive mode for considering visual art as postmodern address._______________________-_______________________________-____?[Collage is] an organization of already organized elements.? - Damien Hirst Quoting others? words in one?s own wri...
By: Theory NOW
Jean Baudrillard, "Simulacra and Simulations."
2007-08-19 08:49:00 Originally published in Selected Writings, ed. Mark Poster. Stanford; Stanford University Press, 1988; ppg. 166-184.Selections: If we were able to take as the finest allegory of simulation the Borges tale where the cartographers of the Empire draw up a map so detailed that it ends up exactly covering the territory (but where, with the decline of the Empire this map becomes frayed and finally ruined, a few shreds still discernible in the deserts - the metaphysical beauty of this ruined abstraction, bearing witness to an imperial pride and rotting like a carcass, returning to the substance of the soil, rather as an aging double ends up being confused with the real thing), this fable would then have come full circle for us, and now has nothing but the discrete charm of second-order simulacra.l... Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or a substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal. The territory no longer prece...
text: Jean Baudrillard, "Virtuality and Events: The Hell of Power".
2007-06-10 08:25:00 http://www.ubishops.ca/Baudrill-ardStudies/vol3_2/jb_virt.htmlT-rans. Chris TurnerFrom the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Vol. 3 N°2 (July 2006).Orig. published in Baudrillard's The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact. New York: Berg Publishing, 2005.excerpts:.........Informat-ion represents the most effective machinery for de-realizing history. ... The singularity of the event, irreducible to its coded transcription and its staging, which is what quite simply constitutes an event, is lost. .........In the end, operational war becomes an enormous special effect; cinema becomes the paradigm of warfare, and we imagine it as “real”, whereas it is merely the mirror of its cinematic being. .........The virtuality of war is not, then, a metaphor. It is the literal passage from reality into fiction, or rather the immediate metamorphosis of the real into fiction. The real is now merely the asymptotic horizon of the Virtual. .........[The reality principle] disappear...
text: Jean Baudrillard, "Virtuality and Events: The Hell of Power".
2007-06-10 08:25:00 http://www.ubishops.ca/Baudrill-ardStudies/vol3_2/jb_virt.htmlT-rans. Chris TurnerFrom the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Vol. 3 N°2 (July 2006).Orig. published in Baudrillard's The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact. New York: Berg Publishing, 2005.excerpts:.........Informat-ion represents the most effective machinery for de-realizing history. ... The singularity of the event, irreducible to its coded transcription and its staging, which is what quite simply constitutes an event, is lost. .........In the end, operational war becomes an enormous special effect; cinema becomes the paradigm of warfare, and we imagine it as “real”, whereas it is merely the mirror of its cinematic being..........The virtuality of war is not, then, a metaphor. It is the literal passage from reality into fiction, or rather the immediate metamorphosis of the real into fiction. The real is now merely the asymptotic horizon of the Virtual. .........[The reality principle] disappeared...
text: Jean Baudrillard, ""; English.
2007-05-04 08:56:00 http://pdfdownload.tsone.info/p-df2html.php?url=http://www.huma-nities.uci.edu/mposter/books/Ba-udrillard,%20Jean%20-%20Selecte-d%20Writings_ok.pdf&images=-yesLinks directly to pdf text.This KICKS ASS, by the way.excerpt, from "Fatal Strategies":........Prior to being produced, the world was seduced. A strange precession, which today still weighs heavily on all reality. The world was contradicted at its origin: it is therefore impossible ever to verify it. Negativity, whether historical or subjective, is nothing: the original diversion is truly diabolical, even in thought. The vertigo of simulation, the Luciferian rapture in the eccentricity of the origin and the end, contrasts with the Utopia of the Last Judgement, the complement of original baptism. Which is why gods can only live and hide in the inhuman, in objects and beasts, in the realm of silence and objective stupefaction, and not in the human realm, that of language and subjective stupefaction. A human-god is an absurdity. A...
Jean Baudrillard Died
2007-03-08 05:45:04 Jean Baudrillard is perhaps one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th Century. Certainly one of the most read. He passed away yesterday, Tuesday March 06 2007. This is from the International Herald Tribune: Jean Baudrillard, a French philosopher and social theorist known for his provocative commentaries on consumerism, excess and what he said was the disappearance of reality, died Tuesday, his publishing house said. He was 77. Baudrillard died at his home in Paris after a long illness, said Michel Delorme, of the Galilee publishing house. read full article
By: Sex With Text
Jean Baudrillard
2007-03-08 00:42:00 One of my favorite thinker, Jean Baudrillard, passed away yesterday.The last book of his I read is l'échange impossible. In the book, Baudrillard confronts our relationship with our contemporary world to its ongoing hyperreality.My friend Oliver Vaubourg posted a summary of one of Baudrillard's master piece: l'Ecran total. The main point of the book is to consider the repercussions of substituting formerly symbolic oppositions for a generalized culture with a passive consensus.I just found out that on Turbulence that Ars Virtua will be holding a public tribute to honor the late social and political theorist Jean Baudrillard. Jean Baudrillard's criticisms and view on Simulation are influential to our discussions of the MMO. This short program will be held on the WoW Kilrogg server, 4-5pm PDT, March 17, 2007 near Orgrimmar. Please send tell to Zuluu upon arrival in-world for the location. Too bad my level 62 character is on another server, I will have to go visit with a level 1 ...
By: architectradure
Jean Baudrillard 20th June 1929 - 6th March 2007
2007-03-07 23:41:11 French philosopher Jean Baudrillard died yesterday at his home in Paris, following a long illness. Best known for his concepts of ’simulation’ and ‘hyperreality’ Baudrillard became an outspoken and controversial polemicist for the digital age, as well as writing seminal critiques ofconsumer culture. Amongst his best known works are The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures (1977), Simulacra and Simulation (1981) and The Gulf War Did Not Take Place (1991). Search for Baudrillard on Intute |
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