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Yes, I read your post on obscurantism and no, I don't think it's the same automaton Baudrillard is talking about.

chaz wyman wrote:Do the Dutch use kont for men's bottoms?

Yes, this is linguistically possible.

I always thought the term "arse" denoted the anal cavity itself.
The Dutch word "kont" means "bottom."
My English is American English, sorry for the misunderstanding.

It's a shame you guys are missing two intended puns,
the first one, in the title, a "stopcontact" is the Dutch word for an electric socket



& the second one, in the part about porn, "Kont Acts" (kont = ass in Dutch)

chaz wyman wrote:I was aware of Rontgen's x-rays but did not see how the metaphor fit.

That's probably because I'm just making stuff up.

has anyone read this guy? † 06/03/07 R.I.P. from Dust Breeding ( http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=293 ) : "To think like a woman undresses," Bataille used to say. Perhaps, but Catherine Millet’s naivete is to think that people undress in order to get naked, to reach the naked truth ...

http://free.art.pl/fotografie/baudrilla ... CTION.html

We live today the promotion of nature [...] Seduction, however, never belongs to the order of nature, but to that of artifice [...] Above all, seduction supposes not a signified desire, but the beauty of an artifice.

Thanks for your courage in offering up your work for analysis. I think this text is meaningless as a stand alone unless it is referring to a specific film. "Modern' FIlm simply does not fit this description. You are either wrongly generalising about film - in which case you need to get out mor...

Well I can se where you are reaching out to collect your style. Shame you did not pick a more appropriate quote to answer the question. He seems to be borrowing his automaton analogy from Benjamin's Theses of the Philosophy of History with nearly the same amount of obscurantism. Is he consciously p...

Rien n’est pire que ce qui est plus vrai que le vrai. Tel le clone, ou l’automate dans l’histoire de l’illusionniste. Dans ce dernier cas, ce qui est terrifiant, ce n’est pas la disparition du naturel dans la perfection de l’artificiel (cet automate fabriqué par l’illusionniste imitait à la perfecti...

Lusia Mousky wrote:We all aim at truth, and therefore truth is good.

Or does someone here aim at a lie ?

Have you read Baudrillard?

Hi, my name is Geert, I'm 29 years old and I'm from Belgium. I just signed up today to present my first full text, Stop Contact . Basically it's a criticism on pushed technological progress, inspired mostly by Baudrillard. You can find the English version on my deviantART page. the link is: :: http:...