 |
|
You are not logged in! F.A.Q Log in Register |
 |
|
 |
 Now online (2)dariusgriffin ijonspeches ...and 373 guests Last 5 registered Oplandisks nothingstar N_loop yipe foxtrotromeo Browse members... |
 |
Members 8025Messages 2614263 Today 10 Topics 127551 |
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
did you see that doco on Assignment a wee while ago. had all the "contenders" for the next government. have you read Jean Baudrillard's article "The Gulf War did not take place" ? Quite a provokative/insightful read. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
yeah I did..pretty frighteneing concept..wonder who many are oil company execs..like they placed in Afghanistan.. I read the Baudrillard article a while ago but I must reread it..I got it off that textz site.. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
oh wicked .. it's on textz now .. wasn't there when i checked last .. awesome *wanders over to textz to check out if there's any new stuff* |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
It was there originally actually.. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
sorry my bad the article that I have is called In the Shadow of the Millennium ..which quotes elements of The Gulf War did not take place.. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
mmm.. can't find it. strange Jean Baudrillard A Conjuration of Imbeciles Jean Baudrillard Disneyworld Company Jean Baudrillard Global Debt and Parallel Jean Baudrillard Illusion of the End or Strike of Jean Baudrillard In the Shadow of the Millennium Jean Baudrillard L'esprit du terrorisme Jean Baudrillard No Reprieve For Sarajevo Jean Baudrillard Plastic Surgery for the Other Jean Baudrillard Radical Thought are all the Jean B. articles that come up for me? |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
ah .. cool cool :) hehe ... *slightly off topic, i took the liberty to upload a remix i did of yellow snarkle's Llboing222... track on wremaxd ... will try and do some more remixing this week (if time allows) ... any suggested tracks or whatever?* Soo.. elections quasi-soonish .. CNN must be having a field day |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
hmm..pick and remix whichever you want..and upload whatever you want as well:) look forward to hearing yer version of yellow snarkle:) |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
US elections? |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
have you read Jean Baudrillard's article "The Gulf War did not take place" ? Quite a provokative/insightful read. I've been meaning to. I thought it was an interesting idea. Still, I know a couple of people who served in it, so unless 3 of my mates are lying it did take place :P |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
cool .. i'll see what i can do. re: snarkle, might do some more versions .. but yeah .. has its moments (imho). |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
apparently the title accounts for 90% of the misunderstanding. he isn't saying it didn't "take place" as such, but it wasn't an event (ie something that can't be predicted). um.. i could say more .. dunno if it will give away too much or whatever? |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
some say the title was a provocation..an intellectual challenge/red herring... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
in an important sense the war didn't "take place" - but Baudrillard is far from ignoring all the lives lost .. in fact, it could be argued that this was his incentive for writing the article. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
ciao amigos .. ats me for anight |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I think after Saddam is gone some other dictator will take over and if that's not the case then Iraq will split into 3 sections how will probably be at war with eachother... And we will not be any safer because then they hate us even more. And besides, I can think of another country in that area who ignored UN resolutions for a while, commits acts of war and is in the posession of weapons of mass destruction and is supported in this by the west... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
"I think after Saddam is gone some other dictator will take over and if that's not the case then Iraq will split into 3 sections how will probably be at war with eachother... " um, on what do you base that..? |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Iraq: Ethnic makeup: 75% Arab, 15-20% Kurd (who don't like eachother) Religion: 60% Shiite Muslim, 35% Sunni Muslim (lots of tension between the two) +lots of warlords + lots of precious oil to fight for I'd say it's a highly unstable situation... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I think the title refers to the fact that war was never actually declared. Hence Gulf "Conflict." But I might be wrong... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
Messageboard index
|
|||||||||
