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Bernardo Alexander Attias Professor of Communication Studies, California State University Northridge Baudrillard Now: But when, now? The title and timing of this charter issue in the Summer of 2020…

The fate of energy — Wyrmwood: Road of the dead, ecology, and Baudrillard’s zombie

Brett Nicholls University of Otago This paper offers a reading of the Roche-Turner brothers film, Wyrmwood: Road of the dead (2014), in terms of Jean Baudrillard’s work on the fate…

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"We have all become living specimens in the spectral light of ethnology, or of antiethnology, which is nothing but the pure form of triumphal ethnology, under the sign of dead differences, and of the resurrection of differences. It is thus very naive to look for ethnology in the Savages or in some Third World - it is here, everywhere, in the metropolises, in the White community, in a world completely cataloged and analyzed, then artificially resurrected under the auspices of the real, in a world of simulation, of the hallucination of truth, of the blackmail of the real, of the murder of every symbolic form and of its hysterical, historical retrospection - a murder of which the Savages, noblesse oblige, were the first victims, but that for a long time has extended to all Western societies."
(Jean Baudrillard, "Simulacra and Simulation")

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"Мы все заживо пропущены сквозь призрачный свет этнологии, или же антиэтнологии, которая является лишь чистой формой торжествующей этнологии, под знаком уничтожения различий, или же их восстановления. Поэтому очень наивно искать этнологию среди Дикарей или где-то в странах «третьего мира» — она здесь, повсюду, в метрополиях, среди белых людей, в целом мире — идентифицированном, проанализированном, а затем искусственно воскрешенном под видом реального, в мире симуляции, галлюцинации истины, шантажа реального, умерщвления любой символической формы и ее истеричной исторической ретроспекции — умерщвления, первыми жертвами которого (положение обязывает) стали Дикари, но которое уже давно распространилось на все западное общество".
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"Reversibility is simultaneously the reversibility of life and death, of good and evil, and of all that we have organized in terms of alternative values. In the symbolic universe, life and death are exchanged. And, since there are no separate terms but, rather, reversibility, the idea of value is cast into question, requiring as it does distinctly opposed term between which a dialectic can then be established. Now, there is no dialectic in the symbolic. Where death and life are concerned, there is in our system of values no reversibility: what is positive is on the side of life, what is negative is on the side of death; death is the end of life, its opposite, whereas in the symbolic universe the terms are, strictly speaking, exchanged..."
(Jean Baudrillard, "Password")

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"Реверсивность, о которой идет речь, представляет собой обратимость сразу и жизни и смерти, и добра и зла — всего того, что для нас существует лишь в виде альтернативных ценностей. В символическом мире жизнь и смерть обмениваются. И поскольку царствующая здесь реверсивность устраняет все обособленные элементы, постольку она устраняет и принцип ценности, предполагающий наличие противоположностей, между которыми неизбежно устанавливаются диалектические взаимоотношения. Однако никакой диалектики в пространстве символического нет. Если говорить о смерти и жизни, в нашей системе ценностей их реверсивность отсутствует: то, что позитивно, — на стороне жизни, то, что негативно, — на стороне смерти, смерть есть конец жизни, ее оппозиция; но в символическом мире элементы именно обмениваются".
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"We are in the eighteenth century. An illusionist well versed in clockwork has devised an automaton. An automaton so perfect, with movements so fluid and natural, that when the illusionist and his creation appear on the stage together, the audience cannot tell which is which. The illusionist then finds himself obliged to make his own gestures mechanical, and - in what is really the pinnacle of his art - to alter his own appearance slightly so as to give his show its full meaning; the spectators would eventually chafe if they were left in doubt as to which of the two figures was 'real7, and the neatest solution is that they should take the man for the machine, and vice versa...."

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"Дело было в XVIII веке. Некий иллюзионист, изощренный в часовой механике, соорудил человека-автомат. Причем автомат был настолько совершенным, настолько гибким и непринужденным в своих движениях, что, когда иллюзионист вместе со своим творением выходил на сцену, зрители не могли отличить, кто из них человек, а кто автомат. И тогда иллюзионисту пришлось сделать механичными свои собственные жесты, и, в качестве высшего искусства, слегка разладить свою собственную фигуру - только так спектакль мог вновь получить свой смысл, ибо в конечном счете зрителям стало бы слишком не по себе от непонимания, кто здесь "настоящий", - пускай уж лучше они принимают человека за машину, а машину за человека"

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“Prophet of the apocalypse, hysterical lyricist of panic, obsessive recounter of the desolation of the postmodern scene and currently the hottest property on the New York intellectual circuit.”—Guardian

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«Пророк апокалипсиса, истеричный лирик паники, навязчивый рассказчик разрушения постмодернистской сцены и в настоящее время самое яркое достояние в интеллектуальном кругу Нью-Йорка». - Guardian

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Jean Baudrillard

French thinker, Jean Baudrillard, is a hard to describe dazzling figure. Some “classify” him as a sociologist, cultural theorist, philosopher, scientist, photographer, prophet or even “God.” Conversely, some consider him to be a “philosopher clown”, or not completely sane, “a political idiot … ignorant and cynical” whose writings are too obscure; so many men, so many minds. Yet, don’t we see this hardwired inescapable repetition in the history of humanity, as the world’s greatest minds have always been controversial for the masses? It’s a rhetorical question.
Jean Baudrillard authored more than 60 books that stirred and shook the world, and still do today, by revealing the nature of modern-day “existence”, which is immersed and overwhelmed by peoples’ delusion, misconceptions, and total delirium. His writings cover practically every significant issue, from reality, consumerism, political intricacies, sexuality and history, to the future’s long term prognosis and human beings as such. Baudrillard was a professor at the Paris X Nanterre University and later at the European Graduate School.

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Baudrillard Now: But when, now?
The title and timing of this charter issue in the Summer of 2020 calls out for comment. Not because the question lacks answers—if anything, there are today too many potential responses. In fact my phrasing of this question is inspired by the question asked by another continental philosopher and social theorist at a likewise deeply cathected global moment. During Spring (and especially May) 1968, significant events in disparate locations around the world—most obviously Paris, but also Saigon, Chicago, Prague, Rome, Baltimore, Belgrade, Beijing, Biafra, and Port-au-Prince—confronted intellectuals and activists with the sudden realization that the social theory they had inherited was largely inadequate to the worlds they found themselves suddenly thrust into. The moment was both fraught with danger and portent with possibility; for some, revolution seemed closer and more realistic than ever before; for others, established power dropped its mask to reveal the naked face of a menacing brutality. That, of course, was the milieu from which Jean Baudrillard emerged at Nanterre, among a handful of scholars who arguably set out to rebuild and reimagine social theory to better engage the world they found themselves in.

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