Tag Archives: Baudrillard

The Conditions of Post-Postmodernity

Posted on November 8, 2014 by edmundberger

Note: In each triad, the first figure represents modernism, the second figure postmodernism, and the third the woefully tacky-sounding post-postmodernism. It should be noted that just as postmodernism emerged from within modernism while also against it, maintaining a balance between … Continue reading →

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Cut it Up and Start Again: Dub Soundscapes and Aesthetic Solidarity

Posted on April 5, 2014 by edmundberger

The boy did a handstand in the surf, laughing. He walked on his hands, then flipped out of the water. His eyes were Riveria’s, but there was no malice there. “To call up a demon you must learn … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Accelerationism, animism, appropriation, Baudrillard, capitalism, Claude Shannon, communication, contagion, cut-up, cybernetics, cyberpunk, Dada, dub, Empire, Guattari, hauntology, information technology, information theory, modernism, neoliberalism, noise, Norbert Wiener, post-Fordism, post-punk, postcolonialism, postmodernism, Protocol, resistance, self-organization, Situationism, solidarity, sound, Warren Weaver, William Burroughs | 3 Comments

Communique from the Committee for the Liberation of Autonomous Amusement: on the media

Posted on December 25, 2013 by edmundberger

“Representations have become more powerful than the material reality itself.”i When we make representations, we never accurately reach that which is being represented. There is a gulf between the object and the subject, and this gulf extends even to these … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Baudrillard, Committee for the Liberation of Autonomous Amusement, communication, contagion, counterculture, cybernetics, cyberpunk, global village, information technology, media, mutation, neoliberalism, post media, Situationism, spectacle, tactical media, the tribal | 2 Comments

American Glimpses (1 and 2)

Posted on October 4, 2013 by edmundberger

Jean Baudrillard from America (1986) Astral America. The lyrical nature of pure circulation. As against the melancholy of European analyses. The direct star-blast from vectors and signals, from the vertical and the spatial. As against the fevered distance of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged America, Baudrillard, Main Street, patriotism, postmodernism, S.J. Bernstein | 8 Comments

Whither Situationism? (Intellectual Gridlock and the Control Society)

Posted on May 31, 2013 by edmundberger

While detouring into the foray of art/anti-art/non-art as a mechanism for prompting social change or sustaining radical currents, I’ve been rereading a lot of material that emerged in the heyday of modernity, and I’ve been stuck with the sense of … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Accelerationism, activism, Baudrillard, Deleuze, Foucault, Guattari, modernism, postmodernism, Sadie Plant, Situationism | 4 Comments

Art Under Capital (Part I of II)

Posted on May 25, 2013 by edmundberger

…Capitalism grants art a perpetual privileged concession: that of pure creative activity – an isolated creativity which serves as an alibi for the alienation of all other activities (and which thus also makes it the most expensive and prestigious status … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Andreas Burckhardt, art, Baudrillard, Bauhaus, chaos theory, Deleuze, finance, Fluxus, Fordism, Guattari, I-Ching, John Cage, Negri, neoliberalism, post-Fordism, Semiotext(e) | 7 Comments

Baudrillard’s Art Conspiracy

Posted on May 23, 2013 by edmundberger

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking and reading about the role of art in both opposition and in compatibility with contemporary forms of economics and control (transnational post-Fordism), and I came across this article by Sylvere Lotringer about Jean … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged art, Baudrillard | 14 Comments

Autonomia: Broadcasting Beyond the Code

Posted on May 17, 2013 by edmundberger

Drawing on Baudrillard, Berardi maintains that A/Traverso, Radio Alice, and other creative groups of Autonomia deployed a strategy of symbolic disorder – a strategy that the French philosopher has described as a Pataphysical science of “imaginary solutions” characterized by the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged autonomism, Baudrillard, Bifo, Dada, pataphyics, Radio Alice | 4 Comments

The Ghost in the Machine

Posted on May 1, 2013 by edmundberger

In 1991, Jean Baudrillard was joined by radical economist Marc Guillaume for series of seminars dedicated to the topic of “the Other.” Like many of their cohorts emerging from the continental tradition, particularly those associate with Italy’s Autonomia, they foresaw … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bateson, Baudrillard, communication, Guillaume, post-Fordism | 5 Comments

Ghosts of Our Pasts: Neoliberal Subjectivity and Crisis (Part 1 of 2)

Posted on April 14, 2013 by edmundberger

In the moments of globalization, we find ourselves simultaneously at the fusion point of five distinct scales of experience: the intimate (the level of personal/interpersonal experience); territorial (the level of local experience); the national (the level of state experience); the … Continue reading →

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