NP--Keeping Cool, But Not Caring

[Otto]

Haven't read the Baudrillard (The spirit of terrorism, Le Monde 2/11/01)
'cause nobody has sent the essay, but I reject that "stupid bourgeois fuck"
strongly.

Now I'm going to read the text:
http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0111/msg00083.html

Otto

----- Original Message -----
From: davemarc <davemarc at panix.com>
To: Pynchlist <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 2:20 AM
Subject: Re: NP--Keeping Cool, But Not Caring


> Oh, come on "Endicott."  We all can see who you really are:  Jean
> Baudrillard.
>
> Because this is a matter of paramount importance to all subscribers on the
> Pynchon list, I publicly submit the following comparison between the
writing
> of "Endicott" and the writing of Baudrillard.
>
> "Endicott" writes:  "Yes, by all means, laugh it up, you stupid bourgeois
> fuck."
>
> Baudrillard writes:  "Nostalgia was nice in the way it sustained the
feeling
> vis-a-vis things that have taken place and could also branch out to
> encompass those that could come around again. It was beautiful as a
utopia,
> as an inverted mirror of utopia. Beautiful in the way of never being fully
> complete, like a utopia never fulfilled. The sublime reference to origin
in
> nostalgia is just as beautiful as the notion of the end in utopia."
>
> I rest my case.  Now it is for the entire Pynchon list to judge.
>
> d.
>