A blog by a web developer called Rich
Just saw this in the ‘From the Blogs’ section of the Grauniad Review. It references and then rips apart a blog post based on an article from the Times suggesting that ‘Internet book piracy will drive authors to stop writing’. Book piracy on the internet will ultimately drive authors to stop writing unless radical methods […]
So three years since I started this blog. Been fun. 5,976 visits, (2,379 unique). Here’ s a photo taken today
Indeed tis a very sad day, Jean Baudrillard has died aged 77. A personal favourite of mine An excellent obituary by the Guardian here, another by the Beeb The great man’s books: Baudrillard , Jean, Chris Turner (Translation). Impossible Exchange. Verso Books. New York, December 2001, 160 pages, Hardcover, ISBN: 1859846475. Baudrillard, Jean, Julia Witwer […]
Postmodernism: according to its protagonists, a completely new way of looking at the world, academic study, philosophy, artistic production etc, arising from the ‘discoveries’ of Foucault, Barthes, Derrida, Lyotard, Baudrillard (in France) and Jameson (in America) and the so-called ‘linguistic turn,’ supposed to have happened in the late 1960s or early 1970s, and maintaining in […]
Its two years since I started blogging! Below shows the design evolution.
The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth – it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true. Ecclesiastes Abstraction today is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or a substance. […]
Jean Baudrillard
Gah, Postmodernism overload…. A virtual island was bought over a year ago in the MMORPGs game Project Entropia for £13,700. Even stranger, the geezer has recently claimed that he’s made all his money back plus profit by: selling land to build virtual homes as well as taxing other gamers to hunt or mine on the […]
So the art has literally consumed itself. On Wednesday a warehouse fire destroyed more than 100 artworks from Charles Saatchi’s famous collection. Works such as Tracy Emin’s tent and works by Damien Hirst and Sarah Lucas were also destroyed. Of course any piece of creative work destroyed is always distressing, yet when work of this […]
‘In Historians view, texts were arbitrary assemblages of words that themselves had come into being only through an arbitrary process of human invention. Each time we read a text, therefore, we put the meaning into it ourselves. So it was with the historian also. Thus what historians wrote was their own invention and not a […]