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>Baudrillard in a footnote to his 'Implosion of Meaning in the Media' (1983) >writes: > >"Distrust the universalisation of struggles through information. Distrust >campaigns of solidarity that is both electronic and worldwide. Every strategy >of the universlaisation of differences is an entropic strategy of the system." > >This seems to be the antithesis of current positions on global activism and its >utilisation of the net. NAFTA, The EZLN and N30 all suggest the opposite to >this typical Baudrillardian stance. > >*Is Baudrillard wrong because he was writing 18 years ago? all u!ch = klas!k = b! dze ver! fakt modern. baudr!lard = korekt. humanz = !nkorekt. >*Or is his concern re: the neutralisation of struggles via the an attempt to >amplify struggles ring true? >*Is it true that an event that reacts to an initial event is already a degraded >form of the event? >*Does the Internet merely overproduce meaning and speech and thus end in an >undecipherable reality? > _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list [email protected] http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold