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Tag overview for: 'jean_baudrillard'

Entries on this site with 'jean_baudrillard'

  • a tool to deceive and slaughter
    Intriguing conceptual art piece by Caleb Larsen, titled ' A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter '. It consists of a shiny black box connected to the web, which will put itself u
  • a pataphor for what?
    Some more on Oulipo (see previous post ), many of whose members were also 'pataphysicians. A pseudo-philosophy devised by French playwright and surrealist avant la lettre
  • hyperreality
    All through the 19th and 20th centuries political and economic practice merge increasingly into the same type of discourse. Propaganda and advertising fuse in the same mar
  • information, pt. 2
    Now, there is something obscene about the instant replication of an event, act or speech and their immediate transcription, for some degree of delay, pause or suspense is

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