I've been thinking about baudrillard's Requiem in relation to 9/11. His latter work on 9/11 indicates the possibility of a horrific transcendence of the code in an act of terrorism that epitomizes a new kind of symbolic exchange beyond the normalcy of the code of the reified exchange system. Here is a model of the code of exchange before I move onto how 9/11 complicates this entire structure
Capital (value exchange) Media (image/info exchange) | Products | Events (including speech or communication events) |
| Labor value, fetishization, reification, etc… | Prestructured models of interaction (fait divers all becomes organized into political categories) |
| Control of Surplus Value, immateriality of labor, social factory, etc | Mass Mediatization and the logic of reproducibility |
| Too numerous to mention | Singularity of revolutionary act, immediacy of communication, Symbolic exchange beyond or against the code, democracy beyond decentralized authoritarianism |
| Resistant Poaching or Interactivity or Exit or “new Communism” of the multitude, etc…. | The mortality of speech over the prescripted/preordained referendum style of writing, politics of surface immediacy without truth referent |
“Stuff”
“Filtered”
through
“Effects”
(or causes)
Political Loss
(requiem)
Solutions
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