Is it more relevant than ever or finally completely irrelevant?
>>24934343Classic case of myopic left wing retard restates old ideas because he refused to read naughty chuddy classic texts.S&S is watered down Le Bon for lefties who don't want a racist French-Rev-skeptic chud to have thought of these ideas firs, so no, it's not all that relevant as a work. The ideas themselves however will always be relevant so long as man is a social animal.
>>24934364>because he refused to read naughty chuddy classic texts.Baudrillard literally abandons Marx for Nietzsche, retard
>>24934376Teaching career>While teaching, Baudrillard began to publish reviews of literature and translated the works of such authors as Peter Weiss, Bertolt Brecht, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Wilhelm Emil Mühlmann.[8]First subsection on his wiki is a Marx 'n Engles scholar dippy lmao.I don't give a shit about the cope dippy. This was one of the first books I read when I was 14, its old hat leftitroon sloppa, and it is completely derivative of books written hundreds of years ago.
Baudrillard is the only philosopher you need.
>>24934364one of the most profoundly midwit posts I have ever seen
this was my first book of philosophy, i bought it at barnes and nobles in the matrix, neo keeps drugs stashed in a copy of it, the irony being, that i should have learned that the one doesnt read too much into philosophy, because the book has been hollowed out
>>24935110"we keep the pharmakon, in the books, about the phantasms, books, that dont say anything, because the pages have been cut out, systematically, they're missing something on each page."
pretty relevant especially when it comes to rebellion and how real rebellion is now impossible due to nuclear blackmail. the best we can hope for is stagnation while things get worse. which leads into Nick land territory.every time you see someone say "free Palestine" and think they're real doing activism, Baudrillard looks up from hell and smugly smiles.
>>24934376He abandoned Marx but never communism. He never particularly engaged with Nietzsche, only his French imitators such as Klossowski and Bataille.
Who should i read after Baudrillard? GBT suggested Byang-chul Han
>>24935115Where's this from?
>>24934364>baudrillard>left wing
>>24935106I would be willing to stake big money that you have never read Le Bon and the extent of your familiarity with him came from the annotations in your Sociology 101a textbook.
Debord (and the SI in general) > Baudrillard
>>24935670Capitalism plus doesn't make it. Get back to drinking until you figure it out. Plenty of pills for fags out there, you're just a larp away. Pillpull uni for the faggies.
>>24934364>Le Bonwhat works of his do you recommend?
>>24934343More relevant than ever.
>>24935702>Incoherent schizobabble
>>24935670Barthes is better. Debord is too plagued by anarchist and communist delusions.
>>24935727>The Crowd: A study of the popular mindis foundational, only the first half really the second half he kind of loses himself.DESU I was just trying to trigger OP though, supposedly that work is just a rip off of Gabriel Tarde's "Laws of Imitation" an original 1902 English copy of which I have been searching for FOR WEEKS in English to no result.I have a high quality PDF but I just can't read 100s of pages of PDFs, gives me uni library all nighter flashbacks.
>>24935727https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/125518/1414_LeBon.pdfThere is a Le Bon PDF should you be so interested.
>>24936004>>24936008looks interesting; thanks, anon
>>24935959He was explicitly against ideological politics and wrote against both Anarchism and the Communist movement of his time Anon.
>>24934343Yes I love Baudrillard, though I read more of Deleuze & Guattari now cause they’re less fatalistic and find their philosophy more hopeful and useful Poststructuralism basically gave me what I was lacking in most of the popular communist and anarchist theory that is often too essentialist and idealistic
>>24936147He can never break out of the Marxist point of view. His insights regarding the structure of the system are very far reaching, and then he defaults back to typical communist talking points, such as the abolition of the family.
>>24936008>>24936004Why is this nigga so popular with Arabs? All the reviews on his books in Goodreads are in Arabic
>>24934384>Later, Baudrillard rejected Marxism totally (The Mirror of Production and Symbolic Exchange and Death). But the focus on the difference between sign value (which relates to commodity exchange) and symbolic value (which relates to Maussian gift exchange) remained in his work up until his death. Indeed, it came to play a more and more important role, particularly in his writings on world events.BTFO
>>24936561Define both Marxism and "The abolition of the family" in your own words.
>>24936573Obviously you haven't visited Paris recently.>>24936576>Plotinus isn't Platonic! BTFO!kek brainlet
>>24934364happens all the time fren
Bump
>>24935940Forgot the rules of M-M.>move fast>strike hard>move on fasterFemales still argue about this. It's the same for me too Debord.
>>24935143Han is pop psychology midwittery.
