Re: [-empyre-] Baudrillard's énoncé...

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

There is something to be said about an aphoristic
insight, that I think speaks to the future-present of
theory.  Culture, as it speeds up, becomes less
tolerable of lengthy texts.  Perhaps there is less
need of pure pages, as in the Summa Theologica, in a
time such as our own, and more need of quick insight,
as in Cool Memories...still, both forms retain their
respective values.

As in advertising, writing in general, seems destined
toward shorter clips and renderings.  

NRIII



--- McKenzie Wark <mckenzie.wark@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 3/11/07, Nicholas Ruiz III
> <editor@intertheory.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> > What I like about Jean's take on 'America,' is its
> > realness--we are primitive, he sees this well,
> while
> > paradoxically, we are postmodern.  Jean's
> prognosis of
> > this status is terminal: it ends with a paroxystic
> > phase of culture, of which we are the vanguard.
> 
> I was just reading some quotes I collected from JB's
> books over the
> years. I think i 'get' his remarks on America now
> that i live in it:
> 
> "What do you expect a 'successful' revolution to
> look like? It is
> paradise." (America, p98)
> 
> "Ours is a crisis of historical ideals facing up to
> the impossibility
> of their realisation. Theirs is the crisis of an
> acheived utopia,
> confronted with the problem of its duration and
> permanence."
> (America, 77)
> 
> "Americans can only imagine and combat an enemy in
> their own image.
> They are at once both missionaries and converts to
> their own way of
> life, which they triumphantly project onto the
> world."
> (TGWDNTP, 37)
> 
> "One day they will rebuild Disneyland at
> Disneyworld."
> (Cool Memories II, 42)
> 
> The latter touches on his genius for aphorism, a
> much despised genre,
> and another of Canetti's talents. (Although this one
> owes mere perhaps
> to Chamfort)
> 
> 
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Dr. Nicholas Ruiz III
Editor, Kritikos
http://intertheory.org