perhaps it was a newer addition

In his article "The Baudrillardian Symbolic, 9/11, and the War of Good and Evil," Bradley Butterfield examines Jean Baudrillard's notion that terrorism functions according to the rule of symbolic exchange, a notion most fully articulated in Baudrillard's The Spirit of Terrorism, written after the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001. Butterfield analyzes the concept of symbolic exchange as it emerged in Baudrillard's early works, particularly in For A Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign and Symbolic Exchange and Death. Butterfield traces Baudrillard's concept of symbolic exchange to Mauss's studies of the Kula and Potlatch with their agonistic exchange of gifts.

*The Spirit of Terrorism*

this essay was put in the edition i read

oh ok

Simulation, Baudrillard claims, is the current stage of the simulacrum: all is composed of references with no referents, a hyperreality.[19] Progressing historically from the Renaissance, in which the dominant simulacrum was in the form of the counterfeit—mostly people or objects appearing to stand for a real referent (for instance, royalty, nobility, holiness, etc.) that does not exist, in other words, in the spirit of pretense, in dissimulating others that a person or a thing does not really "have it"—to the Industrial Revolution, in which the dominant simulacrum is the product, the series, which can be propagated on an endless production line; and finally to current times, in which the dominant simulacrum is the model, which by its nature already stands for endless reproducibility, and is itself already reproduced.

this is from wiki

i forgot he claims this started before the industiral revolution

lol i've tried wikipedia

i really have to re-read it

i lost my copy too

it had all sorts of footnotes and highlights

😦

im going to buy a physical copy

yeah ok

I've been having the urge to read from a page

gotcha

i might actually read this instead

https://www.amazon.co.uk/System-Objects-Radical-Thinkers/dp/1844670538/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1536803680&sr=8-3&keywords=simulation+and+simulacra

this Radical Thinkers series is quite excellent

their translation of Adorno's Minima Moralia is filled with invaluable footnotes

https://m.france24.com/en/20180912-dalai-lama-says-europe-belongs-europeans

Lama redpilling the masses

I fully intend on not having kids or going to college.

Those 2 things just aren't for someone like me.

I mean thats a very hasty decision before you've entered college or hit 25

you have to start going to college before you’re allowed to decide if you want to go to college

🤔

Big think

Just reallized need to change my PFP to something related to the name. A randomely generated name and symbols looks cool but eh, its meh at best

also so in Poland it spopular for the man to drive even if the woman knows how to but my god femiism is rife in our advertisements its fucking everywhere

we have more female students than male

which is due to a recruitment bias

for fucks sake

poland is gonna become a feminist hell hole at this rate, without any overt feminism

@Bogatyr Bogumir I had a feeling that Poland was not nearly as "trad" and patriarchal as people say

I guess my suspicions were correct

Unfortunately so. You can probably thank the EU for that

@Snakeisninja atleast there are no Muslim terror attacks

@Leaf Supremacist tru