Re: For Camille: On Baudrillard

Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Mon, 14 Dec 1998 12:26:16 +1100 

Thanks, John and Jim! That's really sad to hear about Baudrillard ... I
guess all the original theorists are quite getting on - Lyotard passed away
only this year. I too enjoy his `provocations' as you describe them - ideas
thrown up in the air to be caught or left. I was always so afraid of
approaching his work because it has a reputation for difficulty, but when I
read `Simulacra and Simulation' I was surprised at how much relatively
straightforward sense it made to me. I find simulacra a fascinating
concept. I too saw him, albeit on a satellite linkup, in 1996 but
unfortunately it was before I knew very much about postmodernism. It's such
a shame he's not writing any more - though there's so much to go over in
his present books they should keep us interested for a long time yet.

And jeez louise, Jim! I'd kill to have *my* stuff forwarded to Derrida !!!
(: Guess that $500,000 is better than a poke in the eye with a burnt stick,
too. If John wasn't messing with your mind, congrats! 

Thanks again!

Camille
verona_beach@geocities.com
@ THE ARTS HOLE www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442
@ THE INVERTED FOREST www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest

> The following forward is from John the Deconstructionist.  He sent this
> to me from a different e-mail acct. and asked me to forward them to
> bananafish.  I didn't change a thing.  Honest.
> 
> Bla-hahahahaaaaaa!
> 
> :)
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> --------- Begin forwarded message ----------
> From: Omlor@aol.com
> To: jrovira@juno.com
> Subject: For Camille: On Baudrillard
> Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 15:38:14 EST
> Message-ID: <444305de.367425b6@aol.com>
> 
> (Thanks for forwarding, Jim.)
> 
> 
> Camille,
> 
> On a sadly serious note, I'm afraid Baudrillard has not been well.  I saw
> him
> several years ago in Canada after he had stopped teaching and his health
> was
> already fluctuating. It has, I'm afraid, gotten worse recently.  I'm not
> sure
> as to his latest status, but I'm afraid that he is no longer writing.  I
> teach
> his book on Simulations and his two books on America (*America* and *Cool
> Memories*) sometimes in one of my courses, and I'd ike to teach the book
> on
> Seduction soon.  Although I'm not as up on his work as on Derrida's and
> certainly I have more problems with some of his rhetoric (his
> deliberately
> dramatic, carefully constructed carelessness worries me sometimes), I do
> enjoy
> his provocations.
> 
> Yours,
> 
> --John
> 
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> 
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