Re: [-empyre-] Baudrillard and the future of theory

[Aliette <aliette@criticalsecret.org>]

On 11/03/07 19:30, "patrick lichty" <voyd@voyd.com> probably wrote:

> The idea the Baudrillard's death spells a terminal point for theory
> (only a polemic) ignores so many other forms of theoretical forms of
> communication; i.e. McLuhan's media-based theory, Baudrillard's literary
> pataphysics, Flusser's dialectic between the essay and the thesis.
> 
> As with Kan's Hacker Manifesto, I saw it for what it was right off the
> bat -a beautifully crafted literary proposition for additional work on
> the Marxist project.
> 
> I think there are many different modes of expression in theory; it seems
> ironic that some of the conversation suggests a hegemonic model of the
> scholarly thesis-form as a 'standard'.

Probably an accident:)

> 
> In some ways, I thought we might have gotten farther than that.  The
> Krokers, Wark, Flusser (RIP), and many others are most definitely trying
> to keep the modes of expression wide...
> 
> 
> 
> Patrick Lichty
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: empyre-bounces@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au
> [mailto:empyre-bounces@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au] On Behalf Of Christina
> McPhee
> Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2007 12:55 PM
> To: soft_skinned_space
> Subject: Re: [-empyre-] Baudrillard and the future of theory
> 
> Do you mean "Genoa" here?  (re: 'Genes')
> 
> 
> On Mar 11, 2007, at 5:08 AM, Aliette wrote:
> Alternative is a dialectical concept that does not more rule as
> dialectic
> power in our times. You know perfectly that after Genes at the moment
> they
> have enclosed the manifestation far from the debate: the
> communication of
> the mass power of alter-globality was closed. The model with the largest
> people of the world having their proper centralized government - global
> institution: is a representation of what we have always struggle
> against.
> 
> 
> c
> 
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