Re: [-empyre-] Baudrillard's é noncé...

[Aliette <aliette@criticalsecret.org>]

existential divide --that he quoted very often between friends:- in this
meaning yes, 

Radical sadness:

Nietzsche

Can be the tentative of exceeding Nietzsche as defy

And now the challenge for theory beyond

It's great
 




On 9/03/07 14:55, "McKenzie Wark" <mckenzie.wark@gmail.com> probably wrote:

> Sylvere Lotringer asked some US-based writers for comments for a piece
> in Le Nouvel Observateur. This is what I sent him this morning:
> 
> 
> "For Baudrillard, our faith in the real is one of the elementary forms
> of religious life. While there are plenty of 'realist' philosophers,
> particularly in America, none bother to question the reality of the
> real itself. Baudrillard's thought was not an unmasking of the unreal
> but rather took place outside of the procedure of falsification. For
> him theory was closer to poetry, an operation that made nothingness
> out of the power of the sign. Everything he wrote was marked by a
> radical sadness and yet invariably expressed in the happiest of forms.
> After the foreclosure of so many seemingly 'radical' projects, he
> pursued the last one left to him, a symbolic exchange outside of the
> endless proliferation of indeterminate signs. He returned the world to
> itself exactly as it was given, as an enigma. But always at least as a
> far more elegant and astonishing one."
> 
> It seems to me that would now be the challenge for theory.
> 
> McKenzie Wark
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