I love your "Keyword" videos. Thank you so much for your explanations!

Just to say, I think what you're doing is incredibly valuable and I'd like to thank you for making this content and sharing your knowledge! While I know some of the theorists and texts you discuss, I find your insight really useful in contextualizing my own ideas and your videos on concepts I haven't really explored yet are a great way to start to get to grips with some very tricky concepts. I'm very interested in Baudrillard and I'd love to see his work come back into focus, especially given some of his takes on things (e.g., advertising and virtual reality) that hadn't come into their own in his lifetime, and content like yours makes ideas like this accessible to people that don't have a deep background knowledge

I wish your account had existed ten years ago when I was studying philosophy - you are really good at explaining, calm and it is very easy to follow difficult theories and this seems a lot like a book club I never knew I missed. 😅

I have mentioned Pawlett before to you, but I will also say his Violence, Society, and Radical Theory in which he combines analysis of both Baudrillard’s Symbolic Exchange and the work of Bataille to great effect is worth a gander

It seems like so many French theorists get ideas from Bataille (Baudrillard, Lacan, Deleuze, etc..)

Shots fired! Very Lucid explanation of this highly counter-intuitive concept. I'd like to see you do one on Impossible Exchange, where I believe he clarifies that symbolic exchange is a thing of the past

Great video David and very important. Im glad you brought up Mauss, 'the gift' it's a really important text during that period. I didn't realise there was a recorded debate between the two. But would love to see a video on it! Enjoy your weekend 🙂

Great explanation. I'm reading a book on Ernst Cassier right now and all his talk about the Symbolic reminds me there have been so many other ideas for human nature that our present one is merely the result of markets and false desire. I think your explanation of bartering may have missed a step, and David Graeber's book on the history of Debt helps bridge some of it concerning how relations are solidified into fiat currency.

The images of the dead now live on perfectly, frozen in suspension on Facebook pages.. Almost as if they are the sacrifice to the virtual. Their ultimate point of existence to serve the collection of information in perfect limbo. But maybe that was always the case, with paintings, photographs, film etc, but the difference with digital images is they never age, they don't fade as we fade, rather they stay in real time. A development that has upset the juxtaposition between history and death. The charm and mystery of the past no more, as the images from 40 years ago now look identical to images made yesterday. Whereas by comparison, images taken 1940 present a vast chasm of time, speaking to a bygone age. The images like the bodies of the people they depict, ossified and ghostly. Receding into history. Forty years no longer feels like a vast chunk of history, no longer signifies the end of eras, ages, epochs - but now seems like part of the same endless digital fin de siecle that stretches out to infinity. The perfection and the infinite preservation of the image, rather than better preserving our memories for posterity, rather annihilates the concept of posterity. The more the image is frozen in real-time, the more death is robbed of its symbolic power. The times don't die with us, rather we are devoured by the virtual in real time.

Thanks v.v. much. I love your no drama style of exposition.

Ha! Love the preface! Thanks for this; very helpful and always grateful to have the books to point to (which I’m glad I already have on hand)!

I do not work with D/G's concept of becoming-animal too much, but it sure sounded like it right after you said you don't mean it like that :D

Thank you David! Always the best!

Can you please explain Lacan's stain theory

I enjoyed this video. I thank you for making it.

Oh boy. Been trying my utmost best to avoid Deleuze and Guattari but everywhere I go, I am directed to their maze. Anyone who can recommend a short text to gently introduce me to their ideas especially becoming?

That Manuel DeLanda book really stands out on a bookshelf, I have that one too. Edit: haha I also have the edition of a Thousand Plateaus next to it too. samesies...

Your speaking about the command and control over death reminds me of part of Freud's 'Beyond the Pleasure Principle'. In it he speculates that part of every biological organism's driving force is to chose the way in which it dies. On what terms it dies. It is Freud at his most existential and experimental. Out of this comes his 'Death Drive', famously explored further in 'Civilization and Its Discontents'. Anyway, I haven't read any Baudrillard, but this makes me wonder if he converses with Freud's work in this regard. To any of you who have read Baudrillard: is there a connection here?

Love the channel. Although, I personally never understood why ppl regulate themselves in just the continental or just the analytic traditions. Although, from my experience, analytic philosophers are usually more open-minded than continent types, as they are not only willing to engage in the literature, but also take some of it seriously. Whereas, with continental types, there’s a pompous arrogance to them. Anyway, you should explore the other side too. It will help

how is seduction affected by the fact that there is no symbolic exchange anymore?

Catalogue living, nice one.

Helpful, thanks

The only word on the bookshelf which is vertically symmetrical and thus unchanged when pivoted and reversed is "DIE". Now you all gotta see it too.

Most people learn language through music or dramaturgy. So, in terms of Nihilism, and aphorisms versus fallacies, how people related and social representation. I am curious to hear the rest of the video and your thoughts :) To me Echoic Memory is all symbolism.

Great video. Thanks :). I'd be interested in further discussion of the Derrida debate.

There was never such a thing as "the age of barter".

Thanks

Where can I find this debate between Baudrillard and Derrida?

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this was good

lettura di peso nella stessa bibliografia di Baudrillard, lettura necessaria e "bella storia i sottotitoli"... anche la logica del controdono mi sembra notevole...

Yes that is correct, symbolic exchange is gone. Who would get that wrong? So called 'primitive' societies had this symbolic exchange, not as many would say religion. With the development of religion symbolisms narrowed under the colonial power starting with Rome that installed its made up religion. With the development of capitalism they became signs. With Marx it is production but with Baudelard it is consumption. I consider that Marlon Brando would have been one of the last actors to have worked symbolically.

Thank you for translating J. Baudrillard. I find that his borrowing concepts and creating metaphors quite confusing, leading my mind off on tangents. Maybe a linear way of thinking is not the appropriate approach to understanding Baudrillard.

Pourquoi le titre est-il en français ? et la vidéo in english ?

I have fallen love with you darling!!!!

David looks like Boudlliard guy...

Aaa what a nice coincidence! Also I, yesterday, introduced Baudrillard's book-Consumer Society kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eMqCoLiLqMuqiqc.html

Your bartering example is helpful but very ahistorical and backed by little anthropological evidence. It’s not essential to the video, but a dangerous idea to toss around as if it’s “obviously true” when it was a narrative made up by Adam Smith and often used to legitimize the inevitably of capitalism.

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