又到清明。我知道应该关窗烧些纸.

  那天打电话，李老师说，布西亚过世了。我震了一下：他过世了？！是啊 ，他在任何地方又不在任何地方。这件事从来没有发生过。

 对布西亚的特别感情不是因为毕业论文时对中国家具的分析借自他的视角，而是因为它的生活态度，看到《物体系》的序，竟然发现我跟他竟是如此的切合。你看，这次的考试结果又让我游离到中心附近的边缘。从这个意义上讲，他像极了我的精神之父。他的行文风格也让我豁然开朗,他的虚构解疑学著作更趋近于科幻作品的惯例而非社会学,而他自己也说过这样的话,在我所有理论性和分析性的阐述后面始终有着格言 逸事和断片的痕迹.你可以称之为诗.



French philosopher Jean Baudrillard dies

　　The Associated Press

　　Tuesday, March 6, 2007

　　PARIS: Jean Baudrillard, a French philosopher and social theorist known for his provocative commentaries on consumerism, excess and what he said was the disappearance of reality, died Tuesday, his publishing house said. He was 77.

　　Baudrillard died at his home in Paris after a long illness, said Michel Delorme, of the Galilee publishing house.

　　The two men had worked together since 1977, when "Oublier Foucault" (Forget Foucault) was published, one of about 30 books by Baudrillard, Delorme said by telephone.

　　Among his last published books was "Cool Memories V," in 2005.

　　Baudrillard, a sociologist by training, is perhaps best known for his concepts of "hyperreality" and "simulation."

　　Baudrillard advocated the idea that spectacle is crucial in creating our view of events — what he termed "hyperreality." Things do not happen if they are not seen to happen.

　　He gained fame, and notoriety, in the English-speaking world for his 1991 book "The Gulf War Did Not Take Place." In the first Gulf War, he claimed, nothing was as it appeared.

　　The public's — and even the military's — view of the conflict came largely through television images; Saddam Hussein was not defeated; the U.S.-led coalition scarcely battled the Iraqi military and did not really win, since little was changed politically in Iraq after all the carnage. All the sound and fury signified little, he argued.

　　The Sept. 11 attacks, in contrast, were the hyper-real event par excellence — a fusion of history, symbolism and dark fantasy, "the mother of all events."

　　His views on the attacks sparked controversy. While terrorists had committed the atrocity, he wrote, "It is we who have wanted it. . . . Terrorism is immoral, and it responds to a globalization that is itself immoral."

　　Although many Americans were puzzled by his views, Baudrillard was a tireless enthusiast for the United States — though he once called it "the only remaining primitive society."

　　"Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise," he wrote. "Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other."

　　French Education Minister Gilles de Robien said "We lose a great creator."

　　"Jean Baudrillard was one of the great figures of French sociological thought."

　　Born west of Paris in Reims on June 20, 1929, Baudrillard, the son of civil servants, began a long teaching career instructing high school students in German. After receiving a doctorate in sociology, he taught at the University of Paris in Nanterre.