RIP Jean Baudrillard 1929 – 2007
There is a misunderstanding of course, that is the reason why I previously hesitated to talk about The Matrix…. ( via greencinedaily.)
Jean Beaudrillard 
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The pataphysical spirit is the nail in the tire — the world, a wolf’s mouth (lupo vesce). La gidouille is also a hot-air balloon, a nebulous or even a perfect sphere of knowledge — the intestinal sphere of the sun. There is nothing to take away from death. Does a tire die? It renders its tire soul. Flatulence is at the origin of the breath.
1ooo days of theory – Pataphysics by J. Baudrillard via Ctheory.
Pataphysics is the absurdist pseudo-philosophy/ideology devised by Alfred Jarry.
By way of the understanding Artaud’s impact on the young Baudrillard, it may be valuable to recall Artaud’s proposal in Le Théâtre et Son Double (The Theatre and its Double) that art (in his case drama) must be a means of influencing the human organism and directly altering consciousness by engaging the audience in a ritualistic-like trance.
–Reviewed by Joseph Nechvatal
The Spirit of Jean Baudrillard – an obit from Arthur Kroker of Ctheory
In his thought there was always something simultaneously futuristic and ancient: futuristic because his theorization of the culture of simulation ran parallel to the great scientific discoveries of our time, specifically the radical transformation of culture and society under the impact of the speed of light-time and light-space; and ancient because Baudrillard was haunted by the enigma of pataphysics, namely the magical ascent of the reality-principle itself into the language of artifice, seduction and terror.
‘My death is everywhere, my death dreams’ – K-Punk
In any case, what eventually transpired was the monstrous birth of a New York “Simulationist” school, principally composed of the artists Peter Halley, Jeff Koons, Ross Bleckner, Sherrie Levine, and far more principally marketed and masterminded by freelance curators Collins & Milazzo.
Jean Sees Dead People by Scott McLemee (Jan, 2001)
Remember Baurillard by Scott McLemee (March 14, 2007)
Continental Drift (via Cyrano)
(Question to J.B) – France chose not to send soldiers to Iraq, which has real meaning for countless individual soldiers, for their families and for the state.
J.B. Ah, yes. We are “against” the war because it is not our war. But in Algeria, it was the same. America didn’t send soldiers when we fought the Algerian war. France and America are on the same side. There is only one side.
Sainte Beuve 
Then, on one of my trips to Japan, I was given a camera, and I began to try it out a bit, taking photographs from the plane on the return journey.
I like photography as something completely empty, ‘irreal’, as something that preserves the idea of a silent apparition.
Baudrillard’s Photography: A Hyperreal Disappearance Into The Object?
Artwork: happy famous Artists
tractatus logos philosophicus – baudrillard/disneyland
embroidery on canvas