[Nettime-nl] another contribution to the thread (from alan shapiro)

[Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl>]

> From: "Alan Shapiro" <Alan.Shapiro@gmx.de>
> Date: 6 March 2012 8:08:01 PM
> Subject: another contribution to the thread
>
> I am not a transhumanist. So, Richard, please stop implying that you  
> have spent even 5 minutes reading my writings. You haven't the  
> slightest idea of what my work is about. Please be more explicit  
> stating the truth that you are only interested in talking about  
> yourself. Stop projecting your fears onto whom you imagine other  
> people to be.
>
> Marianne van den Boomen's comment about downloading Baudrillard's  
> brain is quite funny. At my website, I replied to a related comment  
> of hers. I paste the exchange here:
>
> Marianne van den Boomen: "rumour has it that Baudrillard will be  
> attending". Uh? Baudrillard died in 2007.
>
> Alan N. Shapiro: A truly wonderful comment by Ms. van den Boomen.  
> Baudrillard would have loved this! If you look at the programme of  
> the event, you will see that there is going to be a reading of a  
> portion of Baudrillard's seminal-iconic text "America," and that  
> this reading is going to be performed by a performer "impersonating  
> Baudrillard." One of the central categories of Baudrillard's system  
> of thought is irony. My statement that Baudrillard will be attending  
> is made in the form of irony, not in the form of "literal  
> fact." (The English-language Wikipedia article on Baudrillard had  
> his birthday incorrect for a long time until I corrected it.)
>
> I did not download Baudrillard's brain. I read all of his books.




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