La mort de Jean Baudrillard
“I must put myself in the place of an imaginary traveller who stumbles upon these writings as upon lost manuscripts and who, for lack of supporting evidence, would attempt to reconstitute the society they describe.” (The Ecstasy of Communication, 1988)
International Herald Tribune: French philosopher Jean Baudrillard dies
I feel la vieille garde dying off. And funny, but where the article says “We lose a great creator” I read “great curator.” I don’t think he’d mind.
International Journal of Baudrillard Studies
Ben Attias: Welcome to the World of Jean Baudrillard
Baudrillard on the Web
Baudrillard at Semiotext(e)
March 7th, 2007 at 10:29 am
I knew the jokes would be inevitable, but check the tone of this Guardian obituary. Not like when Derrida died.
March 9th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
thanks for those url pointers along with the announcement. they help me out.
a few weeks ago i read through this blog’s entire archive, looking for materials. in addition to finding interesting rumuninations (e.g., one you did on musical rhythms of cities), i found useful pointers to postings elsewhere that i might not have seen otherwise, such as a nick stalder paper on fragmented places, mike davis comments on peri-urban places, and stephen katz on how to speak and write postmodern. and more. please continue.
March 12th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
There’s a blog entry I have typed off on the topic. It looks like blogging is a form of personalized appropriation of the discursively reified event of Baudrillard’s media impact as celebrity-scholar who in passing away retains the imprint of singularity. There seems to be a tension between the public memory of him, his personalized archive of his documentary traces, and the narrowcasting through media to the multitude of remembering agents piecing together their individualized stories about him as third person.