He doesn’t even talk that way, as though the thing-in-itself is unnecessary. Get it or not.īaudrillard’s basic idea is that we don’t live in reality-that is, in the common sense use of the word, there is no thing-in-itself. Instead of giving you guide posts along the way, he’d rather you sink or swim. And unlike other thinkers, he doesn’t quote too many philosophers in fact, nearly none at all. Instead, Baudrillard plops you in the middle and makes you flounder. In any case, he doesn’t do the historicity thing by telling you the past, where the idea may have come from, and then develop the series of thoughts that outline the form of the idea. He will start off with an example, develop the idea within the example, and then end by wrapping the example around itself, rather than ending on continual applications of the idea. This is not an easy book to read, in part because Baudrillard starts off with his ideas in full development and then talks around them, to explain them. Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
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