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Say Everything is a pretty rad article about online social networking issues - privacy, public humiliation, invisible audience, etc. Paints a pretty interesting picture of where we, as a self-indulgent bunch of assholes, are heading on this turbocyberhighway. I'm sure the recently deceased French Guy Baudrillard (who is not a 9/11 denier by the way, read the fucking book properly), would've had equally interesting things to say concerning an entire generation gleefully slipping even deeper into pure simulation. I, however, am done typing now; you never know who's reading and Big Drill is somewhat reviled by The Academy (capital letters are more ominous). Still, dying is usually a ticket to renewed fame as an artist, perhaps academia will preach forgiveness over his cooling corpse. Maybe someone will Photoshop the wrinkles out of his face and we'll have a perfect symbol to remember him by, a semi-detached signified silently screaming out of the pixels at the irony of being infinitely reproduced to infinity.

Someone needs to make Baudrillard a MySpace page, too, I think he would've liked that.

Posted by Chris at 01:19 AM >> Commentations (8)