Re: <nettime> Baudrillard and the 1983 comments

["KATERINA D." <knd {AT} hol.gr>]

Baudrillard has been discussing the new developments in technology and
communication, principally associated with Internet, during the last years.
His stance is highly sceptical, at times aphoristic of a medium which
according to his theory exemplifies hyper-reality and fakeness.

katerin
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From: "J.M.G" <jay {AT} gibsonnet.net>
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Sent: Παρασκευή, 9 Φεβρουαρίου 2001 5:12 πμ
Subject: Re: <nettime> Baudrillard and the 1983 comments


> <...>
> >Why would an "overproduction" (relative to what?) of meaning and
> >discourse result in an undecipherable reality? when was there a
> >situation when reality was easily and uncontroversially "decipherable"?
> >I suspect Baudrillard is talking about some of the campaigns of the
> >1970s, conducted largely by mimeograph and photocopy and telephone,
> >the most prominent example in Paris being solidarity with Russian and
> >East Block dissidents and prisoners of conscience. By "electronic" he
> >probably means mass media like TV and radio.
>
> I welocme all of your comments;
 <...>

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