Baudrillard discussing Watergate: "capital, which is immoral and unscrupulous, can only function behind a moral superstructure, and whoever regenerates this public morality (by indignation, denunciation etc.) spontaneously furthers the order of capital, as did the Washington Post journalists." (Baudrillard, 1983 p. 27)
The exact same could be said of the current situation with Trump.
#trump #philosophy #simulacrum
Easy to forget just how great GY!BE were early on...
Watch "Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Sleep" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/T3Oll7nUgQo
"The history of our collective moral learning doesn’t start with the growing acceptance of a picture of an ideal society. It starts with the rejection of some current actual practice or structure, which we come to see as wrong."
Thomas Nagel reviews Kwame Anthony Appiah's "As If"
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/04/05/as-if-kwame-anthony-appiah/
ICE Uses Facebook Data to Find and Track Suspects, Internal Emails Show
https://theintercept.com/2018/03/26/facebook-data-ice-immigration/
How do we create free and open discourse on the internet without the distortions of market and state influence?
This is the most level-headed appraisal of the #cambridgeanalitica scandal I've read so far. #deletefacbook
LRB · William Davies · Why the Outrage?: Cambridge Analytica
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n07/william-davies/why-the-outrage
#introductions #introduction
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