The OBSCENE: Fatal Strategies IV (Video Exclusive)
Added 2022-12-30 14:00:05 +0000 UTCThe final "figure of the transpolitical." The figures of the obscene are everywhere, are we at the end of the end?
Fatal Strategies Link: https://amzn.to/3usNspr
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Totally disagree with the ONLY statement on Baudrillard. Probably just the natural cathexis that comes from intense study of one author. I do think he's extremely radical, but Semiotext(e) / Interventions carries further some of the same theoretical points Baudrillard mentions in the series' inaugural text, "The Agony of Power." If you have not given any of those a read, I think now would be the time. A few of them changed the direction of my life permanently. (Or if not the direction, then simply the attitude / orientation toward "life.") I provided a list in a later video with Amazon links.
Walker Goff
2023-03-21 20:36:17 +0000 UTCIt was obvious in the seventies because what he recognizes in emergent technologies is the way they merely reproduce social contradictions already manifest. Whatever Baudrillard's opinion of Hegel, he was undoubtedly a reader of Hegel, as were all of the other "postmoderns." You have to go through the experience of being a (failed) leftist to reach transcendental miserabalism, at which point you begin to search for something beyond the typical political dichotomies. That project becomes far more personal (and therefore particular). It is a venture of exploration rather than the settling of pointless academic debates. Baudrillard is certainly a genius, but I simply see him as one perspective among others. What he seems to be saying is already fully there in Bataille. You simply have to spend enough time with Bataille to digest his sometimes emetic nihilism. His literature is as deserving of a careful read as his philosophy, theory, and criticism. I still think this book is profound, and I have enjoyed this video series immensely more than previous ones. I certainly prefer this to phenomenology, whatever value I've discovered phenomenology to possess. This material is far more resonant with my experience.
Walker Goff
2023-03-21 20:18:15 +0000 UTC
