Baudrillard's passing

Jean Baudrillard is dead.

This is very sad news indeed.

Larval subjects writes:

Those who came before us are quickly disappearing and a void is appearing. It’s important to keep certain orientations and trajectories of thought alive.

I couldn't have put it better myself.

The idea of thought after death, of the life of thought, of thought as in some sense out of time, insesnses the new culturalists, but lets be clear about what such a notion means: after Baudrillard we are all in some sense marked by that passing, and share in that mouning a sense of community that is both local and part of a longue durée.

As one thinker passes, so others intervene, make sense and reuse that thinker's work. It is not strictly Oedipal, but it is as if we mark the passing of these thinkers in ways not dissimilar to the primal horde's mourning for the father they have murdered.

Maybe we mourn out of guilt. Maybe we mourn out of ritual. But we mourn, certainly, to honour.

Comments

[Hattie]

I'm in the midst of recovering and re-discovering. Your blog is a great resource.

[blahfeme]

why thank you - that's very kind indeed.