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will dive deeper This book feels like the Rosetta Stone for Baudrillard, an essential tool for anyone interested in digging deeper into his thought and philosophy.
Easy to read though very layered it presents his key terms and a brief exploration of what the word means when placed in the context of the modern world.
An important look at the need for a redefined duality over a singularity that will leave us without choice and as I think he is going for, lifeless.
Recommended for anyone interested in delving into his work or graspable and enjoyable philosophical exploration.
as if each word crumbled into an endless chasm I visualized something that would be akin to the realm beyond language amp historyDelirante è dire poco.
Read for a class. Very French. I have to call bullshit on this silly book, Like a lot of people I read Baudrillard with interest and glee back in the 's.
I picked this up in a thrift store for two bucks and thought it'd be fun to refresh what I had so enjoyed way back in the day.
Upon closer examination, however, this book is a total scam, If you've read Baudrillard's actual books there's nothing new, if you haven'tas many other reviewers here have pointed outthis is at best a tease and at worst incomprehensible.
It's B. 's "notes toward explaining my oeuvre to a group of undergrads, " It should have been a xerox oh, how dated am I!!! distributed on the first day of class.
Instead, Verso, a division of New Left Books, the erstwhile British Marxist press, have given it a beautiful glossy cover of a fogshrouded highway I hear Michael Palin's voice shouting "Oh, what a giveaway!", oversized it, and slapped aprice tag on it.
Isn't it nice that I can critique Verso's capitalist strategies with the concept of conspicuous consumptionwhich I first read about in Verso Books back in the 's.
This, like most of the things one reads in the news today, invokes the cliche of not knowing whether to laugh or to cry.
Actually we all know we will only shrug because we no longer care enough to either laugh or cry and that again makes me wish I could still laugh or cry about all of the bullshit piling up around me.
Suggested read for study admittedly I struggle with philosophy and heavy theory, and though I was advised to read this as it is "accessible", it's still hard to get if you're not already acquainted with the basics of this kind of theory/philosophy.
Will update this review/rating if I ever reread it, Me topé con este breve libro en La Ventana, estaba buscando uno de Luis Felipe Fabre, cuando este, que estaba mal acomodado, simplemente captó mi atención.
El nombre no me es nada desconocido, digo, a estas alturas, quién no sabría nada de Baudrillard
Filósofo, sociólogo, crítico.
. . este wey parecía ver un mundo que planteaba cuestionamientos constantes al respecto de la posmodernidad, y como en esta obra: la hiperrealidad.
El libro vagó del librero al sillón y del sillón a la mochila sin que avanzara mucho en su lectura, por qué lo compré Algo que leí hojeándolo en la librería me gustó como para agregarlo a mi tema de tesis que versa sobre la "identidad digital", sobre la "huella digital".
Al leer más a profundidad, terminé descubriendo, que todo el libro en sí, como el de Solé, me permiten abarcar un poco más mi tema de investigación, dotarlo de una perspectiva filosófica que estaba dejando fuera, o que mejor dicho, no había vislumbrado.
En apenas unas viñetas, y acomodando todo como en una especie de diccionario mínimo Baudrillard desarrolla temas que van desde definir el objeto, la seducción, el valor, la imposibilidad del intercambio, lo obseceno, lo virtual, el intercambio simbólico, la transparencia del mal, el crimen perfecto, el destino, la dualidad sin embargo, esto solo son eso, cnceptos, que le permiten desarrollar su idea de que en la actualidad, las contraseñas, las palabras de acceso, significan o pueden significar todo.
Son pequeños puntos de entrada a explorar nuestra realidad actual a los ojos de una visión crítica.
In his analysis of the deep social trends rooted in production, consumption, and the symbolic, Jean Baudrillard touches the very heart of the concerns of the generation currently rebelling against the framework of the consumer society.
With the evergreater mediatization of society, Baudrillard argues that we are witnessing the virtualization of our world, a disappearance of reality itself, and perhaps the impossibility of any exchange at all.
This disenchanted perspective has become the rallying point for all those who reject the traditional sociological and philosophical paradigms of our age.
I think this vein of thought is tired,
For instance:
"But in the perfect crime, it is the perfection that is criminal.
To perfect the world is to finish it, to fulfil it and hence to find a final solution for it.
" Note: the reference to the Holocaust with 'final solution' is intentional here ", . . I have in mind the parable of the Tibetan monks who, for centuries, have been deciphering all the names of God, the nine billion names of God.
One day they call in the people from IBM, who turn up with their computers, and within a month they have finished the whole job.
Now the monks' prophecy said that once this listing of the names of God was finished, the world would come to an end.
Obviously the IBM people do not believe this but, as they are coming back down the mountain, with their inventory completed, they see the in the sky extinguished one by one.
This is a very fine parable of the extermination of the world by its ultimate verification, which perfects in with calculations, with truth.
" p.
So, here's a basic Baudrillard parable of simulacra 'exterminating' the original, In other places in the book, he problematizes notions of 'original', 'end' etc, but still speaks about some mythical, previous state of society with nostalgia: ", . . If there is no longer any end or finitude, if the subject is immortal, then he no longer knows who he is.
And it is this immortality that is the ultimate phantasm of our technologies, " p.
I much prefer when his attitude leans towards the Utopian: "Perhaps we are always in a dual morality.
. . There might be said to be a moral sphere, that of commodity exchange, and an immoral sphere, that of play or gaming, where all that counts is the event of the game itself and the advent of shared rules.
Exchange must never have an end, it must always increase in intensity, possibly continuing until death, Gaming might also be said to be of the order of this form of exchange, in so far as money no longer has any fixed value within that sphere, since it is always put back into circulation according to the symbolic rule which is clearly not the moral law.
In this symbolic rule, money won must in no circumstances become commodity value again it must be put back into play within the game itself.
" p. I think he's still imposing a value judgment here, but the concept of game over commodity exchange I think is full of Utopian potential.
Update: no update, Thend half didn't redeem any of the stuff I didn't like here, I think the strongest passages were nearer to the beginning of the book, Baudrillard a luat cuvinte si lea slefuit pana aceastea au devenit transparente pentru ca noi sa putem privi prin ele, ca printro lupa sau, cateodata ca printro prisma anamorfica, facandule, in acest fel sa capate substantialitate si incepand sa traiasca in subconstientul nostru, anuland autoreclusiunea impusa de traducerea, uneori prea simplista, saraca in argumente, a sensului vulgar dat de limbajul cotidian This is the most approachable Baudrillard book.
A great one to start with, Much more coherent and humble than simulacra and simulation, Even though it came out so much later, this is probably the best place to embark, Insightful but very very short and its hard to get a grip on his ideas, I love jean baudrillad writings but definitely this is very brief with alot of unexplored ideas, To understand this book you have to read his other books, Like a lot of other reviews have said, this one tends towards abstraction on account of it's sparseness.
Many of the terms he uses eventually get their own chapters, so once you get to the end, you understand the whole more.
But for the most part this is an overview of concepts with very little direct analysis and few examples of the thought being put into practice.
Breves sobre los conceptos que hilvanan la filosofía fatalista de Baudrillard, suerte de código de sus ideas clave, como: "La seducción", "El mal", "El caos", "El crimen", "Lo virtual" etc.
. . There was much in this book that I felt I couldnt understand with my current knowledge, Nonetheless, several parts were interesting, and it still seems like it was worth the read, oooo, passwords what a fabulous idea for a book, for a theory, for a topic to write about.
I love language. I love different ways of thinking about and understanding the world, Honestly, I love Baudrillard. I can't wait to read this book, quick read but at the expense of clearly delineated philosophical arguments, very enjoyable read nonetheless. Strangely I found this book at the most conservative end of the baudrillarian spectrum, . . I am also a great fan of his work, New to the study of deviants and defiance in society, Passwords definitely added to the "more to study" folder, Excited to have a book that I will be able to go back and read when my paradigm changes.
Quick and deep read, highly recommended if for no more than to say you disagree, A glossary of sorts to a number of words/ideas key to Baudrillard's philosophy, each accompanied by a short essay so inscrutable as to be nearly poetic.
Second short Baudrillard book in a row, "Passwords" is comprised ofbrief chapters each one devoted to discussion of the "keywords" in Baudrillard's philosophical oeuvre.
I don't recommend starting here to gain worthwhile exposure to his work, I did not take much away from this except to wonder if "Passwords" is a tributary reference to Raymond Williams's classic "Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society.
". I think I will have a look at Williams in near term, Reading Passwords as I did, for an introduction to Baudrillard, doesn't quite work, The book is too short: he throws introductory remarks about many interesting topics and concepts at you without giving himself room to explain.
The end product is vague, short on examples and long on speculation, But his thoughts on "The Obscene" and "The Transparency of Evil" are worth a read in our social mediaengorged times.
Jean Baudrillard was a French sociologist, philosopher, cultural theorist, political commentator, and photographer, His work
is frequently associated with postmodernism and post structuralism, Jean Baudrillard was also a Professor of Philosophy of Culture and Media Criticism at the European Graduate School in Saas Fee, Switzerland, where he taught an Intensive Summer Seminar.
Jean Baudrillards philosophy centers on the twin concepts of hyperreality and simulation, These terms refer to the virtual or unreal nature of contemporary culture in an age of mass communication and mass consumption.
We live in a world dominated by simulated experiences and feelings, Jean Baudrillard believes, and have lost the capacity to comprehend reality as it Jean Baudrillard was a French sociologist, philosopher, cultural theorist, political commentator, and photographer.
His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and post structuralism, Jean Baudrillard was also a Professor of Philosophy of Culture and Media Criticism at the European Graduate School in Saas Fee, Switzerland, where he taught an Intensive Summer Seminar.
Jean Baudrillard's philosophy centers on the twin concepts of 'hyperreality' and 'simulation', These terms refer to the virtual or unreal nature of contemporary culture in an age of mass communication and mass consumption.
We live in a world dominated by simulated experiences and feelings, Jean Baudrillard believes, and have lost the capacity to comprehend reality as it actually exists.
We experience only prepared realities edited war footage, meaningless acts of terrorism, the destruction of cultural values and the substitution of 'referendum'.
In Jean Baudrillard's words, "The very definition of the real has become: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproductionThe real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced: that is the hyperrealwhich is entirely in simulation.
" sitelink.
Easy to read though very layered it presents his key terms and a brief exploration of what the word means when placed in the context of the modern world.
An important look at the need for a redefined duality over a singularity that will leave us without choice and as I think he is going for, lifeless.
Recommended for anyone interested in delving into his work or graspable and enjoyable philosophical exploration.
as if each word crumbled into an endless chasm I visualized something that would be akin to the realm beyond language amp historyDelirante è dire poco.
Read for a class. Very French. I have to call bullshit on this silly book, Like a lot of people I read Baudrillard with interest and glee back in the 's.
I picked this up in a thrift store for two bucks and thought it'd be fun to refresh what I had so enjoyed way back in the day.
Upon closer examination, however, this book is a total scam, If you've read Baudrillard's actual books there's nothing new, if you haven'tas many other reviewers here have pointed outthis is at best a tease and at worst incomprehensible.
It's B. 's "notes toward explaining my oeuvre to a group of undergrads, " It should have been a xerox oh, how dated am I!!! distributed on the first day of class.
Instead, Verso, a division of New Left Books, the erstwhile British Marxist press, have given it a beautiful glossy cover of a fogshrouded highway I hear Michael Palin's voice shouting "Oh, what a giveaway!", oversized it, and slapped aprice tag on it.
Isn't it nice that I can critique Verso's capitalist strategies with the concept of conspicuous consumptionwhich I first read about in Verso Books back in the 's.
This, like most of the things one reads in the news today, invokes the cliche of not knowing whether to laugh or to cry.
Actually we all know we will only shrug because we no longer care enough to either laugh or cry and that again makes me wish I could still laugh or cry about all of the bullshit piling up around me.
Suggested read for study admittedly I struggle with philosophy and heavy theory, and though I was advised to read this as it is "accessible", it's still hard to get if you're not already acquainted with the basics of this kind of theory/philosophy.
Will update this review/rating if I ever reread it, Me topé con este breve libro en La Ventana, estaba buscando uno de Luis Felipe Fabre, cuando este, que estaba mal acomodado, simplemente captó mi atención.
El nombre no me es nada desconocido, digo, a estas alturas, quién no sabría nada de Baudrillard
Filósofo, sociólogo, crítico.
. . este wey parecía ver un mundo que planteaba cuestionamientos constantes al respecto de la posmodernidad, y como en esta obra: la hiperrealidad.
El libro vagó del librero al sillón y del sillón a la mochila sin que avanzara mucho en su lectura, por qué lo compré Algo que leí hojeándolo en la librería me gustó como para agregarlo a mi tema de tesis que versa sobre la "identidad digital", sobre la "huella digital".
Al leer más a profundidad, terminé descubriendo, que todo el libro en sí, como el de Solé, me permiten abarcar un poco más mi tema de investigación, dotarlo de una perspectiva filosófica que estaba dejando fuera, o que mejor dicho, no había vislumbrado.
En apenas unas viñetas, y acomodando todo como en una especie de diccionario mínimo Baudrillard desarrolla temas que van desde definir el objeto, la seducción, el valor, la imposibilidad del intercambio, lo obseceno, lo virtual, el intercambio simbólico, la transparencia del mal, el crimen perfecto, el destino, la dualidad sin embargo, esto solo son eso, cnceptos, que le permiten desarrollar su idea de que en la actualidad, las contraseñas, las palabras de acceso, significan o pueden significar todo.
Son pequeños puntos de entrada a explorar nuestra realidad actual a los ojos de una visión crítica.
In his analysis of the deep social trends rooted in production, consumption, and the symbolic, Jean Baudrillard touches the very heart of the concerns of the generation currently rebelling against the framework of the consumer society.
With the evergreater mediatization of society, Baudrillard argues that we are witnessing the virtualization of our world, a disappearance of reality itself, and perhaps the impossibility of any exchange at all.
This disenchanted perspective has become the rallying point for all those who reject the traditional sociological and philosophical paradigms of our age.
Passwords, in the spirit of Gilles Deleuze's Abécédaire, offers us twelve accessible and enjoyable entry points into Baudrillard's thought by way of the concepts he uses throughout his work: the object, seduction, value, impossible exchange, the obscene, the virtual, symbolic exchange, the transparency of evil, the perfect crime, destiny, duality, and thought.
I think this vein of thought is tired,
For instance:
"But in the perfect crime, it is the perfection that is criminal.
To perfect the world is to finish it, to fulfil it and hence to find a final solution for it.
" Note: the reference to the Holocaust with 'final solution' is intentional here ", . . I have in mind the parable of the Tibetan monks who, for centuries, have been deciphering all the names of God, the nine billion names of God.
One day they call in the people from IBM, who turn up with their computers, and within a month they have finished the whole job.
Now the monks' prophecy said that once this listing of the names of God was finished, the world would come to an end.
Obviously the IBM people do not believe this but, as they are coming back down the mountain, with their inventory completed, they see the in the sky extinguished one by one.
This is a very fine parable of the extermination of the world by its ultimate verification, which perfects in with calculations, with truth.
" p.
So, here's a basic Baudrillard parable of simulacra 'exterminating' the original, In other places in the book, he problematizes notions of 'original', 'end' etc, but still speaks about some mythical, previous state of society with nostalgia: ", . . If there is no longer any end or finitude, if the subject is immortal, then he no longer knows who he is.
And it is this immortality that is the ultimate phantasm of our technologies, " p.
I much prefer when his attitude leans towards the Utopian: "Perhaps we are always in a dual morality.
. . There might be said to be a moral sphere, that of commodity exchange, and an immoral sphere, that of play or gaming, where all that counts is the event of the game itself and the advent of shared rules.
Exchange must never have an end, it must always increase in intensity, possibly continuing until death, Gaming might also be said to be of the order of this form of exchange, in so far as money no longer has any fixed value within that sphere, since it is always put back into circulation according to the symbolic rule which is clearly not the moral law.
In this symbolic rule, money won must in no circumstances become commodity value again it must be put back into play within the game itself.
" p. I think he's still imposing a value judgment here, but the concept of game over commodity exchange I think is full of Utopian potential.
Update: no update, Thend half didn't redeem any of the stuff I didn't like here, I think the strongest passages were nearer to the beginning of the book, Baudrillard a luat cuvinte si lea slefuit pana aceastea au devenit transparente pentru ca noi sa putem privi prin ele, ca printro lupa sau, cateodata ca printro prisma anamorfica, facandule, in acest fel sa capate substantialitate si incepand sa traiasca in subconstientul nostru, anuland autoreclusiunea impusa de traducerea, uneori prea simplista, saraca in argumente, a sensului vulgar dat de limbajul cotidian This is the most approachable Baudrillard book.
A great one to start with, Much more coherent and humble than simulacra and simulation, Even though it came out so much later, this is probably the best place to embark, Insightful but very very short and its hard to get a grip on his ideas, I love jean baudrillad writings but definitely this is very brief with alot of unexplored ideas, To understand this book you have to read his other books, Like a lot of other reviews have said, this one tends towards abstraction on account of it's sparseness.
Many of the terms he uses eventually get their own chapters, so once you get to the end, you understand the whole more.
But for the most part this is an overview of concepts with very little direct analysis and few examples of the thought being put into practice.
Breves sobre los conceptos que hilvanan la filosofía fatalista de Baudrillard, suerte de código de sus ideas clave, como: "La seducción", "El mal", "El caos", "El crimen", "Lo virtual" etc.
. . There was much in this book that I felt I couldnt understand with my current knowledge, Nonetheless, several parts were interesting, and it still seems like it was worth the read, oooo, passwords what a fabulous idea for a book, for a theory, for a topic to write about.
I love language. I love different ways of thinking about and understanding the world, Honestly, I love Baudrillard. I can't wait to read this book, quick read but at the expense of clearly delineated philosophical arguments, very enjoyable read nonetheless. Strangely I found this book at the most conservative end of the baudrillarian spectrum, . . I am also a great fan of his work, New to the study of deviants and defiance in society, Passwords definitely added to the "more to study" folder, Excited to have a book that I will be able to go back and read when my paradigm changes.
Quick and deep read, highly recommended if for no more than to say you disagree, A glossary of sorts to a number of words/ideas key to Baudrillard's philosophy, each accompanied by a short essay so inscrutable as to be nearly poetic.
Second short Baudrillard book in a row, "Passwords" is comprised ofbrief chapters each one devoted to discussion of the "keywords" in Baudrillard's philosophical oeuvre.
I don't recommend starting here to gain worthwhile exposure to his work, I did not take much away from this except to wonder if "Passwords" is a tributary reference to Raymond Williams's classic "Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society.
". I think I will have a look at Williams in near term, Reading Passwords as I did, for an introduction to Baudrillard, doesn't quite work, The book is too short: he throws introductory remarks about many interesting topics and concepts at you without giving himself room to explain.
The end product is vague, short on examples and long on speculation, But his thoughts on "The Obscene" and "The Transparency of Evil" are worth a read in our social mediaengorged times.
Jean Baudrillard was a French sociologist, philosopher, cultural theorist, political commentator, and photographer, His work
is frequently associated with postmodernism and post structuralism, Jean Baudrillard was also a Professor of Philosophy of Culture and Media Criticism at the European Graduate School in Saas Fee, Switzerland, where he taught an Intensive Summer Seminar.
Jean Baudrillards philosophy centers on the twin concepts of hyperreality and simulation, These terms refer to the virtual or unreal nature of contemporary culture in an age of mass communication and mass consumption.
We live in a world dominated by simulated experiences and feelings, Jean Baudrillard believes, and have lost the capacity to comprehend reality as it Jean Baudrillard was a French sociologist, philosopher, cultural theorist, political commentator, and photographer.
His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and post structuralism, Jean Baudrillard was also a Professor of Philosophy of Culture and Media Criticism at the European Graduate School in Saas Fee, Switzerland, where he taught an Intensive Summer Seminar.
Jean Baudrillard's philosophy centers on the twin concepts of 'hyperreality' and 'simulation', These terms refer to the virtual or unreal nature of contemporary culture in an age of mass communication and mass consumption.
We live in a world dominated by simulated experiences and feelings, Jean Baudrillard believes, and have lost the capacity to comprehend reality as it actually exists.
We experience only prepared realities edited war footage, meaningless acts of terrorism, the destruction of cultural values and the substitution of 'referendum'.
In Jean Baudrillard's words, "The very definition of the real has become: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproductionThe real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced: that is the hyperrealwhich is entirely in simulation.
" sitelink.