Saturday, November 26, 2005

Continental Drift - An Interview with Jean Baudrillard

quicklittlebullshit interview from the New York Times from last week

Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON

..."All of our values are simulated. What is freedom? We have a choice between buying one car or buying another car? It's a simulation of freedom.

So you don't think that the U.S. invaded Iraq to spread freedom?

What we want is to put the rest of the world on the same level of masquerade and parody that we are on, to put the rest of the world into simulation, so all the world becomes total artifice and then we are all-powerful. It's a game..."Read More

Here's what Wiki has to say about the old Simulator
and here's a nice list of his works available on the web

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