Jean Baudrillard - Transsexuality (1990)

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@aallerton 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for uploading this.

@nicholasserrambana 3 ай бұрын

I have long contemplated Warhol and Michael Jackson as they pertain to the surgical and semio-urgical precdents of our mutant era … so exciting to hear them cited in tandem here.

@addammadd 2 жыл бұрын

Beautifully narrated. I expect you’ll receive much vitriol from those unfamiliar with Baudrillard’s timbre. It is good to remember, as we read Baudrillard, that this is what words sound like as they exit a man so folded up in his own theories they often seem as if they’re coming from a million miles away even when he’s standing right next to you. I personally have grown used to his hyperbole and quit assigning emotional value to it, but rather glance over it in the same way as I glance over the scene I intend to render in watercolor; looking for what’s necessary to be removed for the composition to work. His theories work well for philosophers, I expect very much in the same way Brian Eno’s ‘oblique strategies’ work for artists. One doesn’t use them directly, one uses them with the eyes askance.

@nicholasserrambana 3 ай бұрын

I love the comparison between Baudrillard’s hyperbolic modality and the flashcard imperatives of Eno. My college advisor compared Moten’s writing, for instance, to the gestalt of late Coltrane, but that one I disagree with for other reasons … still bears some resemblance to your watercolor analogy though

@Xanaduum 2 ай бұрын

"Looking for what's necessary to be removed for the composition work." reminds me of authoritarianism.

@DawsonSWilliams Жыл бұрын

“Of Transexual kitsch, in all its glory.” The prophetic Baudrillard. I think of him as McLuhan meets Nietzsche. When Baudrillard stated , “I am visible, I am an image,” I hear the connections to McLuhan, who said “when you use electronic technology, you no longer have a physical body.” The state of health as the right image, or as a posture of hygienic status, also reminds me of the attention Nietzsche draws to moral theatrics; where people would rather SEEM, than BE.