Chris:
I don't like Derrida (Derridas differ(a)nce is only a nostalgia for
identity. I don't had mentioned Barthes but, now, about Jean Braudrillard,is
another story and seems to me, you don't know two very important and recent
works of Baudrillard: "L'Echange impossible" (1999) and "Les objects
singuliers (2000)". Particulary the last one, it's a dialogue with the
architect Jean Nouvel and i recomend this book to you, because they talking
about of a concept of art for the new millenium: the importance of the
information technologies, clonage (they suggest the World Trade Center as a
exemple of clonnes in architecture) codes, world politic and so one… Paul
Virilio is a reference in this book, also.
Curiosly, "Les objects singuiliers" start like this: "On ne va pas
commencer par le rien, parce que, selon la logique, le rien serait plutot un
point d' aboutissement (*)." It's my opinion too. We can't talk about art,
politic or other matter from the zero, without a pressuposing culture,
without references. All of us, i think, have their influences. In my case, i
don't claim have descovering something new; i interpret signs of a culture,
that's all! I don't live in a ivory tower, i live in today's world, with
especific problems, challanges and, in a small dimension, is important give
her contribution to change this state of things! My contribution is a
insignificant one, i'm just one guy, maybe, the meanest of the all men and
that because i'm very respect for the opinion of thinkings like Deleuze (he
was dead is 4/11/95) or Baudrillard. Frenchs or not, i try to learn with
them, because we have a lot to learn with them! Deleuze is dead, but in
reallity is alive! Foucault said that the XXI century will be the Deleuze
century, and he was right! Also, Deleuze's suicide must be a exemple to us,
because when he know had cancer, he refused to wait for dead! He had courage
to make a choice. Maybe we are the dead: we don't have such energie, to
combat the cancer of our times!
Best regards:
Joao Pedro
[email protected]
(*) Baudrillard/Nouvel, in "Les Objects singuliers", p.13, Editions
Calmann-Levy, 2000.
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From: "chris webb" <[email protected]>
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Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: pogogallery forum
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> Question?
> Have we now emerged from the glittering Hyper-Market of critical theory
with a shopping trolley full of theorems whose sell-by-date has long passed
by? Have our excursions accross the channel given us the greatest hangover
imaginable all the while we were trying in vain to numb down our spirits
with cheap french ideology?
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> Baudrillard, where are you? Derrida, have you finally made one difference
too many? Barthes, did you not get over the fact that your mother passed
away? Where are you people now? What has become of you?
>
> Of course we must all die but perhaps not just yet. Why don't we try to
piece together a picture as to where it's at?
>
> Where is theory now? What ideas are going around? Let us build a new
hyper-market of ideas and theories!
>
> I would like to hear from anyone who has made it into this virtual ivory
tower and has something to say about their ideas and their theories.
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