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One of the more interesting thinkers around left the building on 6 March:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2028464,00.html

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
One of the more interesting thinkers around left the building on 6 March:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2028464,00.html
He was never in the building to begin with.

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Originally posted by Palynka
He was never in the building to begin with.
The simulacrum was pretty convincing. A lot of attention to detail.

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
The simulacrum was pretty convincing. A lot of attention to detail.
Have you read him? I never heard of him before today... It sounds too much off-the-wall for my taste (in philosophy, I mean).

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Originally posted by Palynka
Have you read him? I never heard of him before today... It sounds too much off-the-wall for my taste (in philosophy, I mean).
I enjoy his fatal theory stuff a great deal--it's very Ballardian. "America" is a great read for anyone.

Some essays here:
http://www.egs.edu/faculty/jeanbaudrillard.html

This is interesting:
http://www.ballardian.com/

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Guy sounds like a big douchebag.

I did not say that. It did not happen.

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
One of the more interesting thinkers around left the building on 6 March:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2028464,00.html
He was a poseur interested in the aesthetics of ideas, not a philosopher interested in the truth of the world.

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Originally posted by Pawnokeyhole
He was a poseur interested in the aesthetics of ideas, not a philosopher interested in the truth of the world.
A well-balanced period requiring substantiation.

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"War Porn"...
http://www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol2_1/taylor.htm

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Originally posted by Pawnokeyhole
philosopher interested in the truth of the world.
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Read this for your punishment. Look up "anamorphosis" first.

http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=573

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