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13535912 No.13535912 [Reply] [Original]

I mean, he's not wrong.

>> No.13535913

he is not

>> No.13535920

he isn't incorrect

>> No.13535921

Why is it that my friends that are too brainlet to ever read philosophy in their spare time always happen upon postmodernist ideas on acid? They seem to think their ideas are original but still.

>> No.13535922

about what

>> No.13535931

>>13535921
I got into Hegel on about 375mcg; good times

>> No.13535970

>>13535912
Baudrillard said some incredibly transphobic stuff

>> No.13535998

>>13535970
Well, I mean, what are trannies if not simulacra?

>> No.13536002

>>13535970
link it

>> No.13536035

Someone please prove him wrong. For the sake of my fucking SANITY

>> No.13536039

>>13535912
He is tho

>> No.13536040

>>13536035
He's right though, and society has only become more like he described since he was originally published.

>> No.13536043

>>13536002
We are all transsexuals. Just as we are all potential biological mutants, so we are
all also potential transsexuals. An d this is no t even a matter of biology. We are all
symbolically transsexuals.
Take La Cicciolina. Is there any more wonderful embodiment of sex, of the
pornographic innocence of sex? She has been contrasted wit h Madonna , the virgin
product of aerobics and a glacial aesthetic, devoid of all charm and sensuality, a
muscled android, ripe for precisely that reason for conversion into a computergenerated idol on account of the strange deterrence she generates. But, if we thin k
about it, is no t La Cicciolina also a transsexual? Her long, platinum-blond e hair, he r
ample , pneumatic breasts, he r ideal blow-up-doll forms, her lyophilized-cartoon or
science-fiction eroticism and, above all, the exaggeration of the sexual discourse
(never perverse , never libertine), total transgression on a plate; the ideal telephone
chat-line woman , plus a carnivorous erotic ideology which no woman today would
sign up to — except, precisely, a transsexual, a transvestite: they alone, as we know,
live by the exaggerated, carnivorous signs of sexuality. Here , that fleshly ectoplasm
La Cicciolina meets the artificial nitroglycerine of Madonna or the androgynous,
Frankenstinian charm of Michael Jackson. The y are all mutants, transvestites, genetically baroque beings, whos e erotic 'look ' conceals their gender indeterminacy.
The y are all 'gender-benders' , as they say in th e USA .
https://monoskop.org/images/a/af/Baudrillard_Jean_Screened_Out_2002.pdf go to page 9

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13536062

>>13536043
>Koons had seen photos of Cicciolina in a magazine and approached her during a live show about the photoshoot, which quickly sprang into a love affair and then a marriage. It somehow didn’t matter that Cicciolina spoke very little English and that Koons’ efforts to communicate amounted to him pronouncing English words with an Italian accent! The couple had to rely a on a translator to get through the courtship, a tradition that Ludwig (who has a tattoo on his neck of his own name) would continue when (it’s rumored) he visited the studio as an adult and had to have his girlfriend act as a translator with his estranged father.

>> No.13536071

>>13536040
I know, that’s what I’m afraid of