/lit/ - Literature

>>18286697
>with my ideology
as if where something you bought at the mall
Read pic related instead

What is essential reading before Baudrillard

>Come with me
>And you’ll see
>A world of pure imagination

>Come with me
>And you’ll see
>A world of pure imagination

>>14699147
Simulacra and Simulation

Is it just a meme?

This shit supposed to impenetrable? How much reference material am I supposed to know?

Where do I go after this? How do I escape hyperreality?

>>13439101
>>13445439
Also, may as well start with Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation, it's exactly about how we're heading towards a post-truth era, it's short, and not difficult.

>Because an explosion is always a promise, it is our hope: note how much, in the film as in Harrisburg, the whole world waits for something to blow up, for destruction to announce itself and remove us from this unnameable panic, from this panic of deterrence that it exercises in the invisible form of the nuclear. That the "heart" of the reactor at last reveals its hot power of destruction, that it reassures us about the presence of energy, albeit catastrophic, and bestows its spectacle on us. Because unhappiness is when there is no nuclear spectacle, no spectacle of nuclear energy in itself (Hiroshima is over), and it is for that reason that it is rejected - it would be perfectly accepted if it lent itself to spectacle as previous forms of energy did. Parousia of catastrophe: substantial food for our messianic libido.
>But that is precisely what will never happen. What will happen will never again be the explosion, but the implosion. No more energy in its spectacular and pathetic form - all the romanticism of the explosion, which had so much charm, being at the same time that of revolution - but the cold energy of the simulacrum and of its distillation in homeopathic doses in the cold systems of information.
h-holy...

>Because an explosion is always a promise, it is our hope: note how much, in the film as in Harrisburg, the whole world waits for something to blow up, for destruction to announce itself and remove us from this unnameable panic, from this panic of deterrence that it exercises in the invisible form of the nuclear. That the "heart" of the reactor at last reveals its hot power of destruction, that it reassures us about the presence of energy, albeit catastrophic, and bestows its spectacle on us. Because unhappiness is when there is no nuclear spectacle, no spectacle of nuclear energy in itself (Hiroshima is over), and it is for that reason that it is rejected - it would be perfectly accepted if it lent itself to spectacle as previous forms of energy did. Parousia of catastrophe: substantial food for our messianic libido.
But that is precisely what will never happen. What will happen will never again be the explosion, but the implosion. No more energy in its spectacular and pathetic form - all the romanticism of the explosion, which had so much charm, being at the same time that of revolution - but the cold energy of the simulacrum and of its distillation in homeopathic doses in the cold systems of information.
h-holy...

>One no longer makes the Jews pass through the crematorium or the gas chamber, but through the sound track and image track, through the universal screen and the microprocessor.
*takes deep breath*

>>13216465

I can’t understand this.
..............am I a pused?

Has any subsequent philosophical work followed up on this or even rendered it obsolete? Failing that, what's the most important philosophical work, on any topic, from the late 80s to the present?

>>12914425
based

you are just memeing yourself into disneyland

>>12822758

i got memed, this was supposed to be serious but it just reads like a more boring version of Nick Land

Ten pages in and this some of the most poorly-written, half-baked nonsense I’ve ever read.
Thanks for making me waste my time and money.

have you taken the blackpill yet /lit/?