Baudrillard

[Anonymous No.9819193]

Can somebody post that one passage from Baudrillard where he talks about how (iirc) everything has already been liberated, how our age is characterized by reproduction, and how there can only be artificial/reproduced revolution now?

[girardfag No.9819197]

i have one line related to this committed to memory:

>it is always the same; once you are liberated, you are forced to ask yourself who you are.

never went out of my head. not sure if that's the one but that is a verbatim line from one of his books. which one i can't quite remember atm.

[Anonymous No.9819252]

>>9819193
Are you talking about this "After the Orgy" bit? I've posted it pretty often. It's from The Transparency of Evil.

[Anonymous No.9819253]

>>9819252
Yes, that's it. Thank you, anon.

[Anonymous No.9819275]

>>9819253
It's a pretty interesting passage, I think it characterizes the modern moment extremely well, even 20 years later.

>"Now that everything has been liberated, the chips are down, and we find ourselves faced collectively with the big question: WHAT DO WE NOW THAT THE ORGY IS OVER?"

>"Now all we can do is simulate the orgy, simulate liberation. We may pretend to carry on in the same direction, accelerating, but in reality we are accelerating in a void, because all the goals of liberation are already behind us, and because what haunts and obsesses us is being thus ahead of all results - the very availability of all the signs, all the forms, all the desires that we had be pursuing"

I think the only passage that has the same strength of describing the contemporary moment is Debord:

>"The spectacle is not a collection of images,rather, it is a social relationship between people that is mediated by images."

Between these two ideas, I think almost every important contemporary philosophical question is posed.

[Anonymous No.9819279]

Also, here is another one of my favorites from the Transparency of Evil.>>9819253

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