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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-03 06:49 PM
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Excellent site for post-modern lectures
Edited on Thu Nov-06-03 07:13 PM by TrogL
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Click here -> http://www.elsewhere.org/cgi-bin/postmodern/

They're really informative.

Sample: http://www.elsewhere.org/cgi-bin/postmodern/659508070

Reading Lyotard: Socialism and neomodernist capitalist theory

1. Narratives of collapse

In the works of Tarantino, a predominant concept is the concept of capitalist reality. Therefore, a number of situationisms concerning socialism may be revealed. Marx promotes the use of neomodernist capitalist theory to challenge hierarchy.

"Narrativity is meaningless," says Bataille. However, the example of neopatriarchialist deappropriation depicted in Tarantino's Four Rooms is also evident in Pulp Fiction. The subject is interpolated into a Baudrillardist simulation that includes truth as a paradox.

If one examines neomodernist capitalist theory, one is faced with a choice: either accept semantic narrative or conclude that the purpose of the observer is significant form. Thus, Lacan uses the term 'Baudrillardist simulation' to denote a mythopoetical whole. The subject is contextualised into a socialism that includes consciousness as a totality.


Just click refresh for a new lecture.

I could read these forever.

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Waistdeep Donating Member (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-03 07:05 PM
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1. Better url
Edited on Thu Nov-06-03 07:06 PM by Waistdeep
You have to go here to get the page that changes when you refresh.

Those "papers" are hideously realistic.

Added on edit:

But funny!
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-03 07:14 PM
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2. Thanks
Added link.
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