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> >didn't Baudriallard deny that the Gulf war really happened,
> > it was all TV anyway?
> Do you have the passage where he wrote this at hand?
No. Actually I didn't read it myself, I just read it quoted.
>Given the definition of pomo seems increasingly to hinge on whether one
thinks the world today is the same as that of the 1930s, . . .
Wha?
> Does Baudrillard mean to confer validity on this perspective
from in front of the American TV? I'm not convinced that he does;
but I am convinced that his displacement of critique by ironic immersion
does not work. Routine references to the phrase "the gulf war did not
happen" in discussions, sans deadpan irony, proves that >>
Well, who knows about B. But I once did engage in a public debate with a pomit at a panel on Marxism and pomo where she (no one famous, a prof at Kenyon) really did admit that the assassination of the Archbisop Romero was just a text and it was not so that at the back of all the texts there was a man in his blood on the cathedral floor. She was not being ironic.
--jks