Baudrillard's enonce

I am feeling the death of this man and the era of thought through
which he chuckled and slammed the surface of things in our faces so
hard so that we might start also with what is already over-exposed as
surface rather than only tell the stories of what might be hidden in
our imagined geometry of volumaic depths and political conspiracy.

When I was first consciously learning theory (yes-there was/is always
that horrid and actual time of immediate acquisition of art, craft,
practice, and worse/best, the learning curve that does begin but never
ends), Baudrillard was among my primers. And with Deleuze and Derrida
now also quite gone, as Danielewki likes to write, and among others
that one might also elegize (sp?), a moment of thought has/is
generatively produced beyond itself. And the actuality of this
"French School's" passing would seem an imperative to articulate the
vacuole between here and there.

This is me, sentimental, definitely, maybe nostalgaic (though I
seriously doubt it), and feeling a bit inadequate right this minute to
the ongoing and necessary experimentation without the lovely pulls of
thought that moved the "French" moment so fast and with such
complexity. So showing my early '90's generational slip hanging
beneath my skirt.

Everything looks like a blog now. I guess I should and have started there.

Mischievously and sappily yours,
Jamie


From Nick Ruiz III:

With utmost respect to the recent event of Jean
Baudrillard's death, we consider the futures of
thought. This idea he addressed in one of his last
and recent essays:

"The whole problem is one of abandoning a style of
critical thought that is the very essence of our
theoretical culture, but that in some sense comes
under the head of a prior history and life; of
carrying out, just as we have carried out a
deterministic analysis of a deterministic society, an
indeterministic analysis of an indeterministic
society, a society that is fractal, random,
exponential, one of critical mass and extreme
phenomena, wholly dominated by relations of
uncertainty."

We consider factions of thought, and refractions of
perspective, never to be seduced by the solicitous
rationalizations of the real.