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July 12, 2008

let’s get serious

Filed under: philosophy — ABRAXAS @ 10:18 am

either you have not to be serious and seem it,
or to be serious and not seem it.
those who combine being serious
with seeming serious
are insignificant.

jean baudrillard
fragments

5 Responses to “let’s get serious”

  1. brandon Says:
    July 15th, 2008 at 9:53 am

    I am seriously going to shank Baudrillard with a razor blade secured to a toothbrush handle. Take him out prison style… for real. But when I actually do I’ll be serious about it. i.e. i’ll be the man’s irrelevant assassin (if he were still alive i mean)

  2. femi leadbelly Says:
    July 15th, 2008 at 6:58 pm

    tis better to shank
    the lot of armchair facebook
    intellectuals..
    fondling eachother
    whilst seeming..serious

  3. O~* Says:
    July 15th, 2008 at 10:32 pm

    amen. glory glory hallelu-jah.

  4. helge Says:
    July 16th, 2008 at 6:46 pm

    soduku rating: go along with brandon

    or

    who cares? leave for somebody else to try.

  5. O~* Says:
    July 16th, 2008 at 8:21 pm

    helge, femi et al:

    * baudrillard’s descriptive, not prescriptive.*

    read this way, a subtly ironic, critical tone to many of these fragments is apparent… particularly the one about south africa, where he uses those offensive “primal”, “simian” goad-words.

    he is telling it like it is - describing aspects of western cultural practice
    he’s not telling you you ought to subscribe to them!

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