/lit/ - Literature

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>>12523516
>The author of this book literally could not help himself from inserting AND THEN NIXON, THAT FUCKER! THAT SWINE!
Uh oh, you haven't actually read the book. lol
Go ahead and guess how we know that.

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>The fact that the model is just an idea is, moreover, the only thing that makes the actual process of personalization possible. The notion that consciousness could be personalized in an object is absurd: it is personalized, rather, in a difference,
because only a difference, by referring to the absolute singularity of the Model, can thereby refer at the same time to what is really being signified here, namely the absolute singularity of the user, the buyer or (as we saw above) the collector. Paradoxically, then, it is through an idea that is both vague and shared by all that everyone may come to experience himself as unique. Reciprocally, it is only continual
self-individualization on the basis of the range of serial distinctions that allows
the imaginary consensus of the idea of the model to be revived. Personalization and
integration go strictly hand in hand. That is the miracle of the system.

From page 144 of pic related https://monoskop.org/File:Baudrillard_Jean_The_system_of_objects_1996.pdf

What the fuck does this paragraph MEAN? His description of Model as an idea doesn't make sense. What is an accurate example? What makes a model immaterial, why is consciousness relevant to this?

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>>9908128

Just finished this. Huh. Any more on this kind of material culture theory? Already read Distinction and some books by Daniel Miller. Should I continue with more Baudrillard?