Thursday, April 17, 2008

Um ... wha?

Can someone explain Jean Baudrillard to me?

I'm trying to follow the bouncing ideas (or simulacra of ideas) in Simulacra and Simulation and it's just all higgledy-piggledy.

The best I can come up with is:

Kiri-kin-tha's First Law of Metaphysics: Nothing unreal exists.

Baudrillard's response: Nothing real exists.

My brain is tired.