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sun-death: “[The map] is itself apart of the rhizome. The map is open and connectable in all of its dimensions; it is detachable, reversible, susceptible to constant modification. It can be torn, reversed, adapted to any kind of mounting, reworked by an individual, group, or social formation. It can be drawn on a wall, conceived…

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This is the Ariadne aspect of the erotic consciousness—the thread held at its two ends by consciousnesses that look for each other, escape each other, capture each other, and rescue each other; and now they are again separated from each other by that thread which, indissociably, links them together. All these Ariadne objects play with…

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Jean Baudrillard: Hyperreality and Implosion

Jean Baudrillard: Hyperreality and Implosion … All is not well in the world of the capitalist code. In the latest essay of his series on Jean Baudrillard, Andrew Robinson explores the French thinker’s account of the crisis of contemporary capitalism, through three related concepts: hyperreality, fascination and implosion. Robinson shows how, in this theory, too…

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Hayden WHITE “Postmodernism and Historiography”

Hayden WHITE “Postmodernism and Historiography” Parerga: Postmodernist historical thought is present-oriented and is primarily interested in the past only insofar as it can be used to serve the present. Thus, Lyotard is only half-right in finding the origin of postmodernism in the rejection of the great schemata (‘grands recits’) of universal history which purported to…

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