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title: Baudrillard on the Internet
date: 2026-04-18T23:29:52Z
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> Obscenity begins when there is no more spectacle, no more stage, no more theater, no more illusions, when everything becomes immediately transparent, visible, exposed in the raw and inexorable light of information and communication. We no longer partake of the drama of alienation, but are in the ecstasy of communication.
> 
> — Jean Baudrillard, The Ecstasy of Communication (1987)
> In conversation with Claude (Opus 4.7)