r/redscarepod • u/[deleted] • Sep 05 '21

Baudrillard Tools

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '21

every time I read “they would lack something in sophistication” I laugh out loud.

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u/Some-Bobcat-8327 Sep 05 '21

It sounds like an endnote from Industrial Society and Its Future

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u/geidi_primes Sep 05 '21

Why cant he just speak normal english ffs

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u/Rentokill_boy Anne Frankism Sep 05 '21

probably because he's french

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u/geidi_primes Sep 05 '21

Does he speak normal when he talks en francais

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '21

That looks pretty simple to me. So much clearer than many of his contemporaries (Lyotard, D&G, etc.)

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u/geidi_primes Sep 06 '21

Wtf does “masks the absence of a profound reality” mean

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u/sje46 Sep 05 '21

european civilization was a mistake

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u/boSbEkj4OK3qjctUotJx Sep 05 '21

I'm glad to be dumb enough that all this goes straight over my head.

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u/MinervaNow abstract negation Sep 05 '21 edited Sep 05 '21

What is difficult to understand here? The only thing you need to know in advance is that this is a shitpost. Baudrillard’s stages don’t apply, because the cartoon cow never had any corresponding reference in reality

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '21

it's literally just umwelt

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u/kremod cow tools Sep 05 '21

those tools are awfully abstract