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Jean Baudrillard is dead

Jean Baudrillard is dead

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Jean Baudrillard is dead. Horrible, terrible news. We were going to see him this summer. I will write something about Baudrillard’s enormous influence on me, my thinking, and my life tomorrow. Perhaps I will be able to think more clearly then. Tonight, I can only grieve. Tears keep falling, falling. I can’t process this at all. I am devastated. Oh, Jean. Farewell, dear one. “Contagion is not merely active within each system; it operates between systems.” “Consider the recent release…

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Theoryheads and Postmodernism

Theoryheads and Postmodernism

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I’ve added a new page – “About VirusHead.” There is a short explanation of why the blog is named VirusHead. There is also a long rambling section about theoryheads and postmodernism (only for the intensely curious). I’ve also added a page dedicated to Jehovah’s Witnesses issues, news and resources. In addition to page links (to bits of the main VirusHead site), the page lists all the titles of the blog posts on this topic, so that you don’t have to…

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Absence of the social

Absence of the social

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Jean Baudrillard, one of my all-time fave thinkers, has written a short piece on the torched cars and ransacked schools of France. "The Pyres of Autumn" argues that these events (among other things) call attention to the actual lack of a meanful social culture. He describes the ideological bankruptcy of the West as a "banalized, technized, upholstered way of life, carefully shielded from self-questioning." What does national belonging really mean, and how does one have a sense of it today?…

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