Baudrillard Now

"There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world" — Jean Baudrillard #baudrillardnow #jeanbaudrillard #halloween #quote #quoteoftheday

📌 If you haven't read this article yet, take this as your sign. 📝 "Conspiracy Thinking: Towards an Ambiguous Theory of Photography" by Dr. Ted Hiebert "Exercise: Take a picture of someone wearing a tinfoil hat. Framing statement: In his 1927 story “The Tissue-Culture King,” Julian Huxley wrote about a machine designed for mass telepathy, built as an experimental mind control apparatus to help control a growing population...." #baudrillardnow #jeanbaudrillard #article #terrorism #postmodernism https://lnkd.in/efrip5BT

📕 Reading of the Week: "One More Spiral in the Simulacrum: Jean Baudrillard’s Games with Reality" by Dr. Elena Violaris ✍️ "...An engagement with ontological levels acts as the absolute value of Baudrillard’s argument, performing an explanatory function. Despite his assertion that the contemporary condition is characterised by one-dimensionality (immanence, exposure, an absence of secrecy), Baudrillard constantly uses geometrical imagery: a vocabulary of dots, circles and bubbles. Such imagery retains the inside-outside dialectic that Baudrillard ostensibly negates." - Dr. Elena Violaris   👉 Read article here: https://lnkd.in/eZFQqFVv #baudrillardnow #jeanbaudrillard #Baudrillard #hyperreality

"One says mass media is meant to manipulate the masses, but in my opinion it’s the masses who manipulate the media". — Jean Baudrillard #baudrillardnow #jeanbaudrillard #media #masses #quote #quoteoftheday

✍️ "According to Baudrillard, who characterizes death as a ‘contradiction,’ ‘reversal,’ and ‘symbolic challenge,’ death induces chaos in modern capitalist societies due to its inability to be symbolically exchanged. He posits that through the symbolic—an act of exchange that nullifies the real and dissolves the dichotomy between the real and the imaginary—life and death are relegated to the realm of the imaginary. Death, seen as a threat to life and rendered futile, is also assimilated into contemporary news systems as a form of ‘metastatic death.’ It is transformed into information, its meaning predetermined and integrated into news systems and films." ✍️ Fragment from the article "Baudrillard and the Forgetting of Death as a Challenge” Revisited: Comments and New Perspectives" by Dr. Ahmet Dağ #jeanbaudrillard #Baudrillard #baudrillardnow #postmodernism #article 👉 Read the full article: https://lnkd.in/er8QSTkg

"Security is another form of social control, in the form of life blackmailed with the afterlife. It is universally present for us today, and 'security forces' range from life assurance and social security to the car seatbelt by way of the state security police force. 'Belt up' says an advertising slogan for seatbelts. Of course, security, like ecology, is an industrial business extending its cover up to the level of the species: a convertibility of accident, disease and pollution into capitalist surplus profit is operative everywhere." - Jean Baudrillard #baudrillardnow #jeanbaudrillard #quoteoftheday #security #modernworld

"Baudrillard’s “Violence of the Global” (heretofore referred to as VoG) presents four main related themes, each of which in turn extends some of the insights provided by Baudrillard in Power Inferno’s other essays and in some of his other texts written around the same time (for example, Impossible Exchange and Paroxysm). These four themes are: globalization versus the universalization of values; virtual global culture and indifference; globalization as a new form of violence; and the global versus new singularities and terrorism. While all four themes are tightly connected, the question of the violence of globalization is the central concern around which the other topics gravitate. Moreover, the violence of globalization is an issue that remains relevant today, over 20 years after the publication of Baudrillard’s essay, particularly among theorists who recently have written about neoliberalism and the neoliberal subject." 👉 Fragment from the article "Baudrillard’s “The Violence of the Global” Revisited: Comments and New Perspectives" by Dr. François Debrix https://lnkd.in/erbEC9Sz #jeanbaudrillard #Baudrillard #baudrillardnow #postmodernism #article

“The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain silent. Music, commercial breaks, news flashes, adverts, news broadcasts, movies, presenters—there is no alternative but to fill the screen; otherwise there would be an irremediable void. We are back in the Byzantine situation, where idolatry calls on a plethora of images to conceal from itself the fact that God no longer exists. That's why the slightest technical hitch, the slightest slip on the part of a presenter becomes so exciting, for it reveals the depth of the emptiness squinting out at us through this little window.” ― Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories #jeanbaudrillard #baudrillardnow #coolmemories #media #postmodernism

🔺 "What is perhaps the most compelling thing about a tinfoil hat, however, is not the truth or falsity of the claim that it protects the mind. Much more interesting is the possibility that it by wearing such an accessory one claims one’s mind as one’s own. It seems a silly thing to say, but in a world filled with advertising, marketing, and propaganda, the mind may be a more contested site than we think. Literally. " ✍️ Fragment from the article "Conspiracy Thinking: Towards an Ambiguous Theory of Photography" by Dr. Ted Hiebert Read article: bit.ly/3ScVU8z

"Baudrillard almost formulates an equation regarding the relationship between history, modernity, and reality, which we could summarize as follows: modernity=history=reality." ✍️ Fragment from the article "The Supreme Illusion of Real Time as the Limit of All Accelerations" by Dr. Nello Barile https://lnkd.in/eimbeQs5 #baudrillardnow #jeanbaudrillard #article #nellobarile #postmodern