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Who are the best current writers doing cultural analysis in the vein of Baudrillard? It seems like he would be having a field day with our current society and I want to know more.

>> No.11791293
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11791293

take the hanpill

>> No.11791564

>>11791293
Looks interesting actually, thanks.

>> No.11791568

Richard Spencer

>> No.11791675

>>11791235
>It seems like he would be having a field day with our current society
He'd probably say the exact same things as before, really. The coincidence of his last work describing the situation of "after the orgy", and the inception of accelerationism, is entirely too uncanny.

>> No.11792024

icycalm

>> No.11792552

>>11791235
>>11791293
This and Yuk Hui

>> No.11792562

>>11791675
>and the inception of accelerationism

Really?

>> No.11792563

>>11791293
post paragraph example?

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>>11791235
4 days

>> No.11792626

Gilles Lipovetsky

>> No.11793199

>>11792562
>after the orgy, which designates that nothing can change from the current state of mediation
>accelerationism, which designates that nothing can change other than the apparatus of the technic, which can implode human existence (somewhat boiled down, but a fair description)
I'm not even defending accelerationism (Baudrillard would despise it), but rather implying that its growth as a theory directly coincides with what is "after the orgy".

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>>11792563
han is about as close to baudrillard 2.0 as you can get without cloning.

>No buzzword dominates contemporary public discourse so much as “transparency.” Above all, it is emphatically invoked in connection with the freedom of information. The omnipresent demand for transparency, which has reached the point of fetishism and totalization, goes back to a paradigm shift that cannot be restricted to the realm of politics and economics. Today the society of negativity is yielding to a society that progressively dismantles negativity in favor of positivity. Accordingly, the society of transparency manifests itself first and foremost as a society of positivity.

>Matters prove transparent when they shed all negativity, when they are smoothed out and leveled, when they do not resist being
integrated into smooth streams of capital, communication, and information. Actions prove transparent when they are made operational—subordinate to a calculable, steerable, and controllable process. Time becomes transparent when it glides into a sequence of readily available present moments. This is also how the future undergoes positivization, yielding an optimal presence. Transparent time knows neither fate nor event. Images are transparent when—freed from all dramaturgy, choreography, and scenography, from any hermeneutic depth, and indeed from any meaning at all—they become pornographic. Pornography is unmediated contact between the image and the eye. Things prove transparent when they abandon their singularity and find expression through their price alone. Money, which makes it possible to equate anything with anything else, abolishes all incommensurability, any and all singularity. The society of transparency is an inferno of the same.

>Transparency and truth are not identical. Truth is a negative force insofar as it presents and asserts itself by declaring all else false. Further information—or simply an accumulation of information— produces no truth. It lacks direction, that is, sense. Precisely because of the lacking negativity of what holds true, positivity proliferates and propagates. Hyperinformation and hypercommunication attest to lack of truth—indeed, to lack of being. More information, or more communication, does not eliminate the fundamental absence of clarity of the whole. If anything, it heightens it.

>> No.11793713

>>11792626
I think his analysis are kinda weak tbqh, especially since his rants about "hypermodernity" but yeah, he owes a lot to Baudrillard. Et when it comes to the writing style

>> No.11794699

>>11792626
Tell me more about him.