Re: [-empyre-] Epilogue

[Nicholas Ruiz III <editor@intertheory.org>]

It is difficult to end this month on empyre...and
already the next month has begun.

My life changed when I began reading Baudrillard, and
with each permutation of his thought, my thought was
perturbated as well.  I will miss him, and the thought
of him roaming the world.

One last quote for empyre, but not forever:

"'Natural' death is devoid of meaning because the
group has no longer any role to play in it.  It is
banal because it is bound to the policied and
commonplace individual subject, to the policied and
commonplace nuclear family, and because it is no
longer a collective mourning and joy.  Each buries his
own dead.  With the primitives, there is no 'natural'
death: every death is social, public and collective,
and it is always the effect of an adversarial will
that the group must absorb (no biology).  This
absorption takes place in feasting and rites. 
Feasting is the exchange of wills (we don't see how
feasting would reabsorb a biological event).  Evil
wills and expiation rites are exchanged over the
death's head.  Death deceives and symbolically gains
esteem, and the group is enriched by a partner."

from Symbolic Exchange and Death p.164

Perhaps we can walk away from this event like
primitives, 'enriched by a partner'...

NRIII




Dr. Nicholas Ruiz III
Editor, Kritikos
http://intertheory.org