During his life he wrote more than 50 books, denied that the first Gulf War took place anywhere outside the media, claimed that the current Iraq was is an attempt by America to "put the rest of the world into simulation, and most importantly, inspired, if you call it that, the Matrix, to which he said that the references to his work "stemmed mostly from misunderstandings." Sorry Larry and Andy. You just don't get it.
Here's a "picture" of what Baudrillard "looked like."
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Nooooo! Now who am I supposed to pretend exists?
Most people don't understand my work either...
if you were the new york times you would receive a thousand angry letters for this offensive and rude obituary, also a web site hosting a petition would be signed by thousands of leading intellectuals pressuring you to retract your tasteless sense of humour. Obituaries are a bad time and place to criticize someone's thought.
de mortuis nil nisi bonum
Obituaries are the best time and place to criticize someone, even beyond their thoughts. For once, they can't offer up a retort. Who's got the last laugh now, bitch!
de mortuis nil nisi bonum?
nec bonus necque malus venit mortuum. necesse est agnoscere, et otium et negotium; gloria et mala.
besides. i didn't criticize baudrillard, touchypants. i only criticized the wachowski brothers, who are alive.
denuone latine loquebar?
me ineptum. interdum modo elabitur.
criticizing. making fun of.
whats the difference?
the difference is, seriously? are you upset that i'm poking fun at hyperreality and bauddrillard? i might have a problem with that, if you are.
who the fuck is baudrillard to us? he's a genius philosopher and a brilliant mind, therefore we can't have a bit of fun with him?
at derrida's funeral some of his peoples said the greatest tribute to derrida was the onion obit. Derrida "Dies." that is pure making fun of derrida.
did you write letters to the onion protesting their "tasteless sense of humor"? or is the onion just more cultured than I?
i've grown sensitive. or maybe i've always been.
but if i can make fun of ann coulter (which i do quite frequently) i can make a bit of fun with baudrillard.
I would like to take this moment to clarify that I was serious. Poking fun of people in announcing that they are dead should be encouraged. If I can do it when someone is alive, I can do it when someone is dead.
And with that, now it's just you and FR left to fight it out.
i too, am done. thanks for the contribution diedan. and thats not a request for you to die, dan.
I actually just realized I did put on my touchy pants this morning.
Still leave poor departed Baudrillard alone.
well, if i might jump in late, i would like to say first that luminous is not in the business of writing obit's for dead people we do or don't know. second, i didn't read anything offensive, unless one would like to take offense at that fact the B. denied a war where people died. and my most important point, just because people are dead doesn't mean they weren't flawed. i would be rolling in my grave if people remembered me as some sort of perfect person (a person that no one is) because they wouldn't be remembering me for who I was. And personally I have found in grieving that it is essential to remember the ways in which such dead person pissed you off to keep the love you had for them alive within you.
1: This blog isn’t the onion. Nor is expected to be.
2: The onion is offensive and tasteless.
3: Humor and offence are close pals.
4: However both humor and offence are relative. You liberals above all should know this.
5: Because of relativity this issue is one of proximity.
6: If Baudrillard was your grandfather you wouldn’t make jokes about him. At least until time has passed. Why is this?
7: Before the immediate other’s immediate death there is no adequate response but silence.
8: Not because of the dead but because of the living. Which is to say,
9: Grief is easily offended.
10: Your callousness is imposed by distance. You did not know Baudrillard, nor do you know any one who does know him. Thankfully. Therefore you can speak candidly and with humor and not worry about offence.
11: However, though I have only read a few of his books, still somehow I got offended.
Well FR, I'll tell you what, my grandfather did die last week, and I happened to be making jokes about him on sunday with the family. I guess I'm evil and going to hell eh?
Get over yourself.
sorry about your grandfather.
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