/lit/ - Literature

>>11995813
it's too late, you are a hero of Cosmotech now. your praises will be sung forever. you will be known as Anon Who Hearkened Us To Return to Baudrillard. the Adeptus Accelerandus salutes you, brother!
>fufufu

anyways, here's what you want:

>Today, Marxism and psychoanalysis try to mix and exchange their concepts. Logically, in fact, if both fell within the province of 'radical' critique, they ought to be able to do this. This is not the case, as the failure of the Freudo-Marxian phantasm in all its forms testifies. But the basic reason for the incessant failure of this conceptual transfer, and why both remain desperate metaphors, is precisely due to the fact that Marxism and psychoanalysis retain their coherence only within their partial definitions (in their ignorance), and cannot therefore be generalised as analytic schemata.

>A radical theory can be based neither on their 'synthesis' nor on their contamination, but only on their respective ex-termination. Marxism and psychoanalysis are in crisis. Rather than supporting one another, their respective crises must be telescoped and speeded up.

Baudrillard could not into conventional Marxism after this book, because cybernetic inter-operations had confounded the law of value, and it was basically turning the world into the Matrix. before there was a Matrix, there was JB, and his deduction of orders of simulation brought an end to his own relation with Hegel-Freud dialectics and inaugurated his own new form of writing critique about the consumer society, which was largely predicated on their (largely simulacral) dances with sexuality and death.

"sorry it took me so long, complicated business."