baudrillard

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monke

are all biographies and autobiographies inherently /hyperreal/

>>9309479
In his early books, such as The System of Objects, For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign, and The Consumer Society, Baudrillard's main focus is upon consumerism, and how different objects are consumed in different ways. At this time Baudrillard's political outlook was loosely associated with Marxism (and situationism), but in these books he differed from Karl Marx in one significant way. For Baudrillard, as for the situationists, it was consumption rather than production that was the main driver of capitalist society.

Baudrillard came to this conclusion by criticising Marx's concept of "use-value". Baudrillard thought that both Marx's and Adam Smith's economic thought accepted the idea of genuine needs relating to genuine uses too easily and too simply. Baudrillard argued, drawing from Georges Bataille, that needs are constructed, rather than innate. He stressed that all purchases, because they always signify something socially, have their fetishistic side. Objects always, drawing from Roland Barthes, "say something" about their users. And this was, for him, why consumption was and remains more important than production: because the "ideological genesis of needs" precedes the production of goods to meet those needs.[17]

Baudrillard is pretty edgy but he's definately better than Foucault

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>>9310134
In 1976, Jean Baudrillard sent this essay to the French magazine Critique, where Michel Foucault was an editor. Foucault was asked to reply, but remained silent. Forget Foucault (1977) made Baudrillard instantly infamous in France. It was a devastating revisitation of Foucault's recent History of Sexuality--and of his entire oeuvre--and also an attack on those philosophers, like Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, who believed that desire could be revolutionary. In Baudrillard's eyes, desire and power were interchangeable, so desire had no place in Foucault's work. There is no better introduction to Baudrillard's polemical approach to culture than these pages, in which Baudrillard dares Foucault to meet the challenge of his own thought.

He has made me realise that almost everything involves hyperreality.

>>9309479
A brillant mind but his writing style was definitely too obscure.

He's great but such a Debbie downer.

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An analytical genius and a scourge of the academic community. Possessed of an all-time stylistic gift. Capable of describing a mod kitchen and explaining *exactly* the illusion-effect that the commodity was trying to produce on you in order for you to believe in it better than the people who were trying to sell that kitchen to you. In /tg/ parlance he had a permanent save against charm and illusion.

Essentially the Jordan Peterson of Marxist thought, a renegade and heretic against ideologues who already considered themselves to be revolutionaries on the right side of history and carrying out the historical protocol. Brutally honest, completely inimitable, tortured as fuck and probably desperately lonely.

Worth reading.

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>>9310942
Uhnh that pic caused muh dick to stir.

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>The Gulf War Didn't Take Place

>>9309479
Brilliant. Fun. Drive around the American West. That ominous, all but empty silent something (which he admired) still spooks us.. I like the middle period stuff best: The Perfect Crime, The Transparency of Evil. Same applies to Richard Wagner: Tannhaueser, Lohengrin....

>...Whence the possibility of an ideological analysis of Disneyland...

>>9310942
>Essentially the Jordan Peterson of Marxist thought,

Ugh.

>>9310145
Foucault BTFO!!!

>>9310145
Savage

>>9310124
wasn't one of Marx's biggest points abt how exchange-value superseded use-value in cptlsm?

>>9309479
Did you guys see that Hypernormalisation movie?