[syndicate] Baudrillard on riots, on EU referendum, etc.

[Alan Sondheim]

On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, Frederic Madre wrote:

> that's not much the point
> hegel was 200 years ago
> marx 150
> if you are proposing somebody more recent, I'm all ears
>
You're right but Debord seems to have a fashionability that seems 
suspect, he also doesn't seem to have quite the carrying power of m or h. 
Years ago I knew someone thrown out of the British Sit. and had a sense of 
the power which was as rotted to the core as any other.

> I think of Situ. in a
>> way as the
>> dark ages. Godard appears as the dark ages.
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> I like dark.

I do too but not this dark. Btw it's night here now.
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> They're consolidations of
>> power; today power's either elsewhere & hardened or
>> culturally like dust.
>
godard's maoism, Alphaville, etc. The sense of power / guardedness behind 
Debord. There didn't seem to be any dialog; there was Debord. dust = 
Buddhist red dust = Heidegger's they = dialog no matter how trivial.

- Alan

> sorry, I do not understand the sentence
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