Reading #Baudrillard s Symbolic Exchange and Death and it‘s eerie how well this fits as an analysis of the current conjuncture. Baudrillard remains the most Marxist of the Postmodernists, and his Freudomarxism and parallelism of value theory and semiotics leading him to diagnose the degradation of the law of value into the commutability of all values as well as signs suddenly seems so pertinent.
I knew his media theory and always took him as one of the ontologists and pessimists but he really isn’t, he’s obviously obsessed with Brecht (who he translated into German), and he tries to establish a new form of Marxist analysis for a new age that he sees unfolding and which we are now seeing attaining its full form.
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