Realistically, start with System of Objects. It isn't Baudrillard in his ultimate form, sure. If that doesn't interest you, go to the Mirror of Production. It's the beginning of his critique of Marxism. Have you already read Bataille?
Yeah it's insane that those worlds met to produce Baudrillard. I need to read more Bourdieu.
My capstone advisor's dissertation committee had Roger Ames and Graham Parkes. Worlds meet in crazy ways.
>Symbolic Exchange & Death >Go to the library with my special sharpie >Revise the spine so it reads "Sex Change and Death" >Sit back and collect the souls of trannies trying to get into pomo
is baudrillard a bullshit machine like many of his french contemporaries (lacan, deleuze, foucault) or is he better? not that i dislike these bullshit machines (with the exception of deleuze, they can be entertaining), but i feel i've now read my fair share of that kind of philosophy
I wouldn't dive into his more systematic works yet (Seduction, Symbolic Exchange)
His essays on 9/11 and "America" (a sort of aphoristic travel report on the US) are a good starting point into his style/prose. Then I would read the introduction to Simulation & Simulacra ("The Precession of Simulacra"). After that you can take on his more complex works. If you prefer his aphoristic style, check out the Cool Memories series which consists of Nitzschean aphorisms. If you want something inbetween systematic and aphoristic I would read "The Illusion of the End" and "Impossible Exchange".
A solid grasp on Marx, Nietzsche, Lacan and Saussure is very helpful in deciphering him.
In some ways he is an even bigger bullshitter, but what I like about Baudrillard is that he has a certain self-awareness and playfulness in his style. You have to read his books in a sort of non-traditional way; don't take it too seriously, read between the lines and treat it more like a thought experiment in denying reality and challenging the Real to a duel. If you learn how to read him correctly, he will give you unparalleled insights. And he's funny as frick.
not telling
Please? Or do I have to read Seduction to figure out how to make you? :3
Shook Ones Pt.2 (Wittgenstein Remix)
Realistically, start with System of Objects. It isn't Baudrillard in his ultimate form, sure. If that doesn't interest you, go to the Mirror of Production. It's the beginning of his critique of Marxism. Have you already read Bataille?
Also, even S&S isn't his final say on the topic. Read Ecstasy of Communication after because he moves on from S&S, in a way.
>Based on Baudrillard's doctoral thesis under the dissertation committee of Henri Lefebvre, Roland Barthes, and Pierre Bourdieu.
What the frick
Yeah it's insane that those worlds met to produce Baudrillard. I need to read more Bourdieu.
My capstone advisor's dissertation committee had Roger Ames and Graham Parkes. Worlds meet in crazy ways.
No, I'm not very well versed in French philosophy besides Sartre, Camus, and Debord
I'm gonna start with Symbolic Exchange & Death since I'm coming from Mauss and Bataille rather than Marx or Postmodernists
Yeah, that makes sense. At some point it'd be useful to loop back around if you like what you read in SE&D.
>Symbolic Exchange & Death
>Go to the library with my special sharpie
>Revise the spine so it reads "Sex Change and Death"
>Sit back and collect the souls of trannies trying to get into pomo
is baudrillard a bullshit machine like many of his french contemporaries (lacan, deleuze, foucault) or is he better? not that i dislike these bullshit machines (with the exception of deleuze, they can be entertaining), but i feel i've now read my fair share of that kind of philosophy
Baudrillard kind of despised them. Forget Foucault is a critique of Foucault obviously, but also Deleuze.
Baudrillard is someone who values writing things that are quite a bit 'more practical' than those types.
baudrillard and lacan were the only ones who did not lobby their parliament in support of pedophilia
I wouldn't dive into his more systematic works yet (Seduction, Symbolic Exchange)
His essays on 9/11 and "America" (a sort of aphoristic travel report on the US) are a good starting point into his style/prose. Then I would read the introduction to Simulation & Simulacra ("The Precession of Simulacra"). After that you can take on his more complex works. If you prefer his aphoristic style, check out the Cool Memories series which consists of Nitzschean aphorisms. If you want something inbetween systematic and aphoristic I would read "The Illusion of the End" and "Impossible Exchange".
A solid grasp on Marx, Nietzsche, Lacan and Saussure is very helpful in deciphering him.
In some ways he is an even bigger bullshitter, but what I like about Baudrillard is that he has a certain self-awareness and playfulness in his style. You have to read his books in a sort of non-traditional way; don't take it too seriously, read between the lines and treat it more like a thought experiment in denying reality and challenging the Real to a duel. If you learn how to read him correctly, he will give you unparalleled insights. And he's funny as frick.
"Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?"
Consumer Society.
These very fluent essays. Take my word
who are some good right wing 20th century french philosophers ?
looking for some more french language books to read