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Originally Posted by dead_battery
noone reads him anymore.
they all HATE him. all those crit theory uni upper class marxist douches.
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?? I find this hard to believe. Isn't crit theory is way too fragmented for generalizations?
-Read much Delillo? A lot of his stuff is Baudrillard and Jameson in fiction form. Not sure how I feel about that.
-You know what would be really fun? Pretend, for just five minutes, that Baudrillard is wrong about everything.
This is something I've been doing from time to time: pretend to believe in something I ordinarily don't. I mean, really getting into that mindset. It's not merely humoring the idea, it's a full-on psychological transformation.
It's kind of scary. "What if I don't come back?" But it's stimulating, often rewarding, intellectually rigorous, not to mention intellectually honest.
Try it. Just spend a fraction of time thinking of the ways Chomsky is utter bullshit. Or why patriotism is vital to a society. Why US foreign policy has been a force for good. Or why Christianity is the Truth. Or why Baudrillard is a fraud.