Pensaments of an Anthropological Patzer

Archive for 23 November 2005

At the end of our streets…

Wednesday, 23 November 2005, 10:41

I got sick in India — most every American does. Upon return to the United States, I had a falling out with the family physician, and in the five years following I did not see a doctor about this lingering illness. This past September, my friend Emily convinced me to go to the Haight Ashbury [...]

Does anyone else find the NY Times interview with Jean Baudrillard a little ironic?

Wednesday, 23 November 2005, 09:35

It’s a simulacrum of a dialogue in a simulation of journalism. I’m trying to decide my favourite part: It might be ‘So you don’t think that the U.S. invaded Iraq to spread freedom?’ See, ’cause, I totally thought Baudrillard would think that…
For those of you who don’t read high-falutin’ French logorrhoea (after all, as Baudrillard [...]