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Cool Memories IV, 1995-2000

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Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard

Jean Baudrillard was a French philosopher known for his critical studies on consumerism, media, and semiotics. His theories have had a profound impact on postmodernism and cultural studies. more

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“Un individuo humano puede elegir no consumir savia de palma, no comer carne de chimpancés, no montar las pocilgas a la sombra de los mangos, no limpiar la tráquea de los caballos con las manos desnudas, no tener sexo sin protección con prostitutas, no compartir aguja, no toser sin taparse la boca, no subirse con síntomas a un avión o no poner a las gallinas y a los patos en el mismo corral.”

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“This hegemonic simulation, a configuration that seems triumphant and unyielding, has its reverse, its revulsive effects. By virtually yielding to this global dynamic and exaggerating it in several ways, all of these would-be emerging countries gradually become submerging instead. They slowly invade the Western sphere, not on a competitive level, but like a ground swell. This invasion occurs in many ways, like a viral infiltration. It is the problem of global, more or less clandestine immigration (Hispanics are literally cannibalizing the United States). But also in the contemporary forms of terror, a true filterable virus, made up of terrorism and counterterrorism, and which is a violent abreaction to global domination, destabilizing it from the inside. The global order is cannibalized by terror.”

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“La Vacuna Soneto Escuche a los expertos, Escuche a la ciencia. ¡Madura flojo inmaduro, Ten algo de valentía! Me puse la vacuna, Créame es seguro. Cada sientifico lo confirmará, Escucha a la razón, no al chismorreo. Las vacunas producen inmunidad, Las mascarillas previenen la propagación. Si sigues unos simples pasos, Prevendras la muerte de alguien. La libertad sin razón es un salvajismo. En crisis la responsabilidad es imperativo.”

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