#Baudrillard

[weil-weil-lautre]

The moment a thing is named, the moment representation and concepts take hold of it, is the moment when it begins to lose its energy--with the risk that it will become a truth or impose itself as ideology. It is when a thing is beginning to disappear that the concept appears.

Jean Baudrillard, "Why Is there Nothing Rather than Something?" (2007)

[thirdity]

When the real is no longer what it was, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.

Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

[las-microfisuras]

La seducción de los ojos. La más inmediata, la más pura. La que prescinde de palabras, sólo las miradas se enredan en una especie de duelo, de enlazamiento inmediato, a espaldas de los demás, y de su discurso: encanto discreto de un orgasmo inmóvil y silencioso. Caída de intensidad cuando la tensión deliciosa de las miradas luego se rompe con palabras o con gestos amorosos. Tactilidad de las miradas en la que se resume toda la sustancia virtual de los cuerpos (¿de su deseo?) en un instante sutil, como en una ocurrencia –duelo voluptuoso y sensual y desencarnado al mismo tiempo– diseño perfecto del vértigo de la seducción, y que ninguna voluptuosidad más carnal igualará en lo sucesivo. Esos ojos son accidentales, pero es como si estuvieran posados desde siempre en usted. Privados de sentido, no son miradas que se intercambian… signos puros, intemporales… Todo sistema que se absorbe en una complicidad total, de tal modo que los signos ya no tienen sentido, ejerce por eso mismo un poder de fascinación extraordinario.

_ Jean Baudrillard, De la seducción. Madrid: Cátedra (2001).

_ Paul Tanqueray, Ethel Mannin, 1930s.

[runningfrompirates]

I got one of my mutuals fixated on MCR again, this is a huge win

[noosphe-re]

Here, however, lies the task of any philosophical thought: to go to the limit of hypotheses and processes, even if they are catastrophic. The only justification for thinking and writing is that it accelerates these terminal processes. Here, beyond the discourse of truth, resides the poetic and enigmatic value of thinking. For, facing a world that is unintelligible and problematic, our task is clear: we must make that world even more unintelligible, even more enigmatic.

Jean Baudrillard, The Vital Illusion

[hyperions-fate]

The funniest, most cutting film criticism was when Jean Baudrillard said that The Matrix was exactly the kind of film that would be made and shown inside the Matrix.

[opalid]

Things must be pushed to the limit, where quite naturally they collapse and are inverted.

— Jean Baudrillard, Symbolic Exchange and Death

[zooptseyt]

I've said it in other terms already but it's probably a bad sign for culture and society that solipsism is casual mainstream pop philosophy that a bunch of youth unwittingly buy into and a common slang/joke is referring to others as NPCs, reflecting reality through media to justify an individualistic worldview that reduces people to subhuman status for the simple crime of existence.

This is an interconnected issue. As our social existences have grown to be so prominently rooted in the internet rather than reality, we have seen internet culture shift from self selected communities to highly influenced algorithmic streams focusing not on finding others but on playacting the self. We no longer curate social circles but our own reflections, which no longer stem from our own internal selves but a series of desires to conform. Kids don't go to the internet to try and portray their reality, they go to the internet to learn how they want to exist, be it via tiktok algorithms giving them hollow ideals for fashion and life, or via the youtube algorithm curating right wing self help political philosophy.

Though it is nigh impossible to remain untouched by the media that shapes our post-modern world, we can still work to find ourselves outside of it and be authentic. And as the shifting culture we have, moved by the internet (which, yes, is itself moved by humans moved by the internet in an infinite recursion of influence) towards fascist thinking ("others aren't really human, my main concern is myself, things used to be better, people who act weirdly outside of the acceptable societal parameters are morally worse") i think we have some sort of duty to reject it as best we can, to be our authentic selves without resorting to individualism, reject the push to conformity while wholly embracing the humanity of others and loving them on principle.

[909th]

“Everyone seeks their look. Since it is no longer possible to base any claim on one's own existence, there is nothing for it but to perform an appearing act without concerning oneself with being - or even with being seen. So it is not: I exist, I am here! but rather: I am visible, I am an image -look! look! This is not even narcissism, merely an extraversion without depth, a sort of self-promot­ing ingenuousness whereby everyone becomes the manager of their own appearance.”

Jean Baudrillard, The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Il n'y a pas d'aphrodisiaque comme l'innocence.

- Jean Baudrillard

[autoeroticalgolania]

Ours is a culture of premature ejaculation. More and more, all seduction, all manner of seduction (which is itself a highly ritualized process) disappears behind the naturalized sexual imperative calling for the immediate realization of a desire. Our center of gravity has in fact shifted towards an unconscious and libidinal economy which only leaves room for the total naturalization of a desire bound either to fateful drives or to pure a simple mechanical operation, but above all to the imaginary order of repression and liberation.

Jean Baudrillard

[From Can we Forget Foucault? Obscenity and the Politics of Seduction By Isabel Millar

[thirdity]

Most present-day images — be they video images, paintings, products of the plastic arts, or audiovisual or synthesized images — are literally images in which there is nothing to see. They leave no trace, cast no shadow, and have no consequences. The only feeling one gets from such images is that behind each one there is something that has disappeared.

Jean Baudrillard, The Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme Phenomena

[funeral]

The great philosophical question used to be ‘Why is there something rather than nothing?’ Today, the real question is: ‘Why is there nothing rather than something?'

Jean Baudrillard, The Perfect Crime

[runningfrompirates]

Went to a valentines day party. Within 20 minutes, I was sitting on the floor explaining the philosophy of critiquing anthropocentrism to someone while about 8 people stood in a circle around us listening.

About an hour later, after that conversation ended and other socialization had happened, exactly the same thing happened with the same person, but this time I was explaining Baudrillard and Danger Days: National Anthem, as well as the dd plot overall.

[sammeldeineknochen]

Vielleicht verlangen alle Leute letztlich nach der Katastrophe.

Jean Baudrillard: “Kool Killer oder Der Aufstand der Zeichen”, S.124

[hyperions-fate]

My own, Baudrillard-style Fatal Strategy against the tyranny of social media is to be so annoyingly pompous that I force people to log-off in rage and disgust.