[-empyre-] on the transgression as a figure of Baudrillard's works

["Aliette Guibert" <guibertc@criticalsecret.com>]

I hope that I did not make nonsense in my reading of English since some
posts, that of Melinda who appears to touch the core of the problem. However
I would like to add some personal remarks which concern my own life and
experiment of autonomous vigilance in diverse domains where it was looked
for a contribution outside the codes; because I am no academic, for my part
beginning quite at the same moment or almost studies of medicine, then
cinema, then structural linguistics (generative grammars which tells of my
age) but all unfinished for vital or political reasons. Sorry of my bad
Anglophone words.. But I try.


1.

Objectively, I do not think that the femininity constitutes the problem of
hard reference for which the emotion and the sensibility do not pass by a
modelled canal of official thought. If they are thrown back actually I
rather mean of feminity as an alibi of other cause regarding the power of
rationalism than the proper cause coming from women (which was the prime
fact in the former times).

Yes, doubtless an obstinacy of misogyny lies in the allocation of the raw
sensibility (the inspiration "inhabited" with trances) to the women (since
the myth of Dionysos?); but we could say that this ideology strikes so much
the men whose sensibility would express themselves with a prime
determination or violence, for example such poets and both essayists as
Antonin Artaud or Fiedrich Hölderlin.
http://www.antoninartaud.org/home.html
http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article?tocId=9367216

Of course the poetic sensibility is thrown out to the point the poets get
crazy or exiled (in the occidental tradition). Any one told of a fiction on
Hegel ; it was a good metaphor of the requested power of Philosophy to the
world. An inherited default of the poetry announced by Hegel. First he was a
worst poet in front of his friend Hölderlin. Then he learnt the philosophy
and he was there so excellent as he told Hölderlin how the Philosophy would
inspect all the domains of the thought, including that of the poets.
Following what Hölderlin would have become crazy.

I believe to have already told you this story. It adorned me all the more
edifying today as same time it is question of the theory of Matrix of which
the authors admitted to have been inspired by the simulationist and the
transgressive theory at Baudrillard's. Now it is necessary to know that
Baudrillard from his youth was a fascinated amateur of Antonin Artaud, and
more later he was an aggregated in German who translated numerous poems of
Holderlin (it had been ordered him by the publisher Gallimard but just
appears right now, a lot of years later in the book "Cahier de l'Herne"). He
translated equally poems of Brecht and "Dialogue of exiles".


2.
For another hand surfing on this question I have just found a link in
"traditional Sufism" where Baudrillard is quoted about Marx and so on.
http://www.aucegypt.edu/faculty/sedgwick/trad/write/tradsuf.htm
Nevertheless, I can assure you that Jean Baudrillard is not a man of
religion, and every person having read his works can also say it. The
capacity of abstraction and the stylistic device of the ellipse configure a
mental hyperbola which always works with the infinite and maintains an
ubiquity with spirituality.

But in real what could mean "transgressive" here? it means passing besides,
going beyond to exceed and both overtake.

Jean Baudrillard's theory is transgressive of all the references that he
uses himself. That is exactly the reason he never quotes the references: it
would be fake to quote them. Of what consists the practice at Baudrillard ?
It is at first the overtaking of events by the state of consciousness as
visionary faculty - criticizes in state of current vigilance and both of
extreme practical and abstract exercise of intelligence in the lived
company... The reference of the poets is edifying. That of the
anthropologists of the primitive economy (Marcel Mauss and the part cursed
at Georges Bataille). But it is at first on a critical plan the way shown by
Marx, to break the political economy by the criticism of the political
economy, and similarly the malpractice of the capitalism by the class
struggle (applying the criticism of the political economy to the capital),
etc.... It is which has passionate Baudrillard. And at last, reading Barthes
"Le système de la mode" and the studies by Gilbert Simondon on the
techniques he thought of the system of the objects : that was the beginning
of a criticism of the political economy of the signs, as near the symbolic
exchange and the death, both were a transgress theory of the equivalence of
the value (current useful value and exchange value) inherited from Marx.

>From another hand there is a second transgression in the simulation. In fact
he has observed at Marx's how the dialectical strategy of the struggle of
class to the power was a repetition of the criticism of the political
economy; that designed the transgression of a theory from a field to other
field by the repetition, right to the transgression of the concept of
repetition to the concept of simulation. That is the unlimited transgression
at Baudrillard's (the same in anything).

The same of Art and criticism when he talks of Warhol "The mechanical
snobbery".

That is an easy description about Baudrillard, a very little part but a real
part of his work (if you have read it). There is anything so powerful in
Marx theory, it is its predictable system of transgression (break) while he
hope for a progressive repetition of the dictatorship of the proletariat to
the decay of the State (evolution). A sort of radical opposition that
Baudrillard Resolves in a transgressive vision of the dialectic to the
dualism (which contracts as much the time and the space as the means and the
objective or the good and the evil): so there is no religion in this
conception of transgression. It is right about history, that one of the
transgression from a system to another one, from a concept to another
concept, from a field to another field, from physics to pataphysics and from
pataphysics to sociology as predictive - from a world to another world, from
a language to another language, and every statement existing as reality. It
is a materialistic concept of transgression where both all the worlds are
possible in the same environment ( as the work); but it do not means
confusion (a work of logical predictive reading and writing) : it is a
figure of the essay as transgender. At last the final point is the proper
cognition.

Essay is a genre of transgression (methodology, style, object, etc).

The genius transgression being Marx the sublime transgression staying that
one of the poets essayists or the philosophers essayists - as Canetti or
Nietzsche.

Transgression in this sense appears a figure of the predictable revolution
of the thought. It talks of predictable invention. There is no God in it.