07 March 2007

Payback time

Baudrillard's death. Loss of confidence in his own genius. It is fatal to be an absolute reference. The loss was merely the biological transcription of the other process. The same thing happened to Barthes when he 'allowed himself to die.'

(someone had to do it)

1 comment:

Ian Keenan said...

Can't find an html explanation to link to on the WWW, but Baudrillard said this about Foucault when MF died, causing a stir.