The challenge is to assume this new world of simulation and take it one step farther, to the point of no return, to raise it to a positive simulation of the highest degree by marshaling all our powers of the false toward shattering the grid of representation once and for all.
This cannot be done by whining. The work of Baudrillard is one long lament.
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Baudrillard’s framework can only be the result of a nostalgia for the old reality so intense that it has difformed his vision of everything outside of it.
Brian Massumi, REALER THAN REAL: The Simulacrum According to Deleuze and Guattari
I <3 J.B. (probably for all the wrong reasons) but he really was the grumpy grandpa of postmodern philosophy.
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