/lit/ - Literature

>>20451011
Read Baudrillard.

>America is . . . phony!
I can't believe I wasted my time reading this.

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>>15221835
Read Baudrillard and get informed.

What are some books, not necessarily philosophical, that give off the same vibe as pic related? Baudrillard is sometimes incoherent, endlessly evocative and poetic. But the whole thing is extremely compelling, specially sections like:

>The obsessive fear of the Americans is that the lights might go out. Lights are left on all night in the houses. In the tower blocks the empty offices remain lit. On the freeways, in broad daylight, the cars keep all their headlights on. In Palms Ave., Venice, California, a little grocery store that sells beer in a part of town where no one is on the streets after 7 p.m. leaves its orange and green neon sign flashing all night, into the void. And this is not to mention the television, with its twenty-fourhour schedules, often to be seen functioning like an hallucination in the empty rooms of houses or vacant hotel rooms - as in the Porterville hotel where the curtains were torn, the water cut off, and the doors swinging in the wind, but on the fluorescent screen in each of the rooms a TV commentator was describing the take-off of the space shuttle. There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you. Suddenly the TV reveals itself for what it really is: a video of another world, ultimately addressed to no one at all, delivering its images indifferently, indifferent to its own messages (you can easily imagine it still functioning after humanity has disappeared). In short, in America the arrival of night-time or periods of rest cannot be accepted, nor can the Americans bear to see the technological process halted.

>>13873077
More like 40.

>>13457000

As always, America.

America (1986) by Jean Baudrillard

books in which he translation is better than the original? pic related, read America in both French and English, found the translation much more hypnotising and tangible