CRYPTIC ABORTIONS: MEDITATIONS ON BLACK GNOSTICISM
On Yaldabaoth, Monadic Evil, Jesus Christ the Victor, Subjectivity, despair, filmic reality, and DEATH.
Everything Baudrillard said about the World Trade Center before 2001 is extremely eerie. The Singular Objects of Architecture (2000, text is from 1997) and Symbolic Exchange and Death (1976!).
Baudrillard on being dispossessed of one's end. Here, most of all, the Gnosticism is obvious—the indefinite sacrament of corpo-reality is only indefinite putrefaction.
For the new followers:
All my excerpt posts contain the titles of the respective books for easy searching. I provide brief (but quite substantial) commentary, NO THREADS. I've posted about almost all Baudrillard books. I particularly recommend Fatal Strategies.
For the new followers:
I have read and posted excerpts from almost all of Baudrillard's books. All excerpt posts contain the titles of the respective books for easy searching. Minimal commentary. NO threads. I have also posted about Cormac Mccarthy's Blood Meridian.
If D*rwinians were intellectually honest they would confess that the digestive system is the master, not the reproductive, and that the whole body is a byproduct of indefinite excremental accumulation, not genetic iteration.
The relentless pace and theoretical violence of Symbolic Exchange and Death is matched by Blood Meridian traversing the desert of fiction itself, so to speak; there is not one stylistic indulgence in the latter and it shoots into theory proper. No remainder.
On The Mirror of Production:
Comprised mostly of early essays. Regrettably academic: wasting time referencing nobodies (who is Godelier anyway?), etc. A book fortunately made redundant by For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign, wherein he "became Baudrillard".
On impossible exchange. The non-contradiction between the worst of Parmenides and the worst of Heraclitus: motion with no object, more permanent than permanence itself—the ouroboric body of Yaldabaoth.
Finished Discipline and Punish. Quite disappointing. Mostly posturing. Extremely Catholic, naturally. The body, sex, labor, and, most of all, the reality principle remain unscathed through over two hundred pages of "archeology". Sad. Will begin writing the schizopost tomorrow.
On impossible exchange. Again, Différence alone is guilty of indefinite venality, putrefaction, "jouissance", etc. One only has to consider the Baudrillardean sign as identical with the "Christian" word for the—truly Christian—Gnostic revelation of absolute odium.
Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure (1997) is the first Baudrillardean film. One only has to consider the reading that Mamiya is Bluebeard to compromise the usual signifier-signified "relation".
Just as reality only distinguishes itself from illusion by being even more illusory, necessity only distinguishes itself from unnecessity by being even more unnecessary.
I recall that Baudrillard said something to the effect of "consent is only given when everything else has been taken away". Cannot find the quote at all. Might be mistaken. Does anyone know?
The idol is homuncular, teratomic, excremental; the tip of the ouroboric "tail" inside its body. An abominable tautology which condemns "reality" and "representation" to ever-fall through each other. God's eye rolling back in his skull. Iconoclasm is Gnostic ground zero.
M: I know where the reality is.
B: If you knew you would have it with you.
M: I can find it from the senses. I know where it is.
B: I know something better.
M: What's that?
B: I know where it's going to be.
M: Where is that?
B: It will be brought to me and placed at my feet.
The horror of Wake in Fright is Baudrillardean: everything from the gambling scenes (chance is everywhere but there), to the bar commemoration (the secret), to the "body horror" (the horror of bodies as such), to the desert (indefinite dispossession); all dripping with Evil.
For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign added to the chart. Much better than I assumed based on the date, definitely recommend it. Also, I recall reading that Deleuze addressed it somewhere. Can someone link me the text in question? Thank you.