/lit/ - Literature

>15 minutes a cigarette

seems like a stretch but even considering it's true that's only 1 year every 35,000 cigarettes, which probably takes me, a moderate pack a week smoker at approx. 1000 cigarettes a year that's 35 years of constant smoking (and i have only been smoking for 6) before i even lose 1 year (an ok price imo)

>>14049156
holo.. holo-what? hollandaise? you mean hologram? what? never heard of it..

>>14007173
check out Symbolic Exchange and Death

>>13638887
>Then maybe he shouldn't borrow and misuse terminology and ideas from disciplines of which he is ignorant
baudrillard is just playing the part he knows he must

Hey /Lit/ ITT we discuss the definition of pseuds

Memes welcome

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>>9792528
for me it is. simulacra & simulatios is the one most people talk about but it's def not the one to start with. baudrillard is interesting because he starts out marxist & goes nietzschean later - but only because he does this ultra-close reading of signs & simulation. he does metaphysics but uses this in this cultural way also, which is why he writes the way that he does: elliptical, fatalist, romantic.

but before you plunge into that read System of Objects and The Consumer Society to understand that he could also write excellent culture critique. in some ways he sort of has a picasso trajectory: starts out classical, ends up cubist. but good god a'mighty could that man describe a kitchen. his later stuff is ofc super hyperbolic and weird but SE&D is right in that transitional zone. see also Mirror of Production and Seduction. Ecstasy of Communication is good also. in a way he's sort of doing the same stuff that McLuhan did but instead of being a canadian catholic he's a french marxist-turned nietzschean.
>also cool memories for fun
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tl;dr if you like somebody, read everything. as always it's best to start with the beginning tho and work your way through. baudrillard is super-rewarding imho.

& nevar forget that the man still retained a sense of humor.

He was a charmingly intractable bastard and probably would have denied even being original.

Being complex means that one is very difficult to meme, label or simulate. Why should he call himself a postmodernist? There's going to be no end of explication then required for that too.

If late Marxism ever had a Zen master it would have been Baudrillard.

>>8688939
Stuff like this. He knew the deal.