Jennifer, a belated welcome and thanks for the link to your
review. Now I'm interested in this author. His stuff must be
available in France, where things don't go out of print
nearly as quickly as in the US.
By the way, the work of Debord, as that of Baudrillard (who
worked a similar vein), is not without interest.
I always get some interesting observation out of Baudrillard,
even when he's at his silliest. His book of travel
observations, "America", is a good example. Just when I think
he gets it, he comes up with a whopper. And just when I'm
about to give up on him, he's vividly on target. He shoots
from the hip and doesn't count the misses. Best of all, he
provided Sokal and Bricmont with some exhuberant examples of
pseudoscientific nonsense.
A philosopher that provides so much entertainment, and who is
so botchingly smart, is a treasurable rarity.
Best,
MrT
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