Jean Baudrillard - Seduction
Chapter 3: The Political Destiny of Seduction
Part 1: The Passion for Rules
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"The order instituted by the game, being conventional, is incommensurable with the necessary order of the …
Jean Baudrillard - Seduction
Chapter 3: The Political Destiny of Seduction
Part 1: The Passion for Rules
read and realized by Ｓｔｅａｄｙ Ｄｅｌｔａ
"The order instituted by the game, being conventional, is incommensurable with the necessary order of the real world: it is neither ethical nor psychological, and its acceptance (the acceptance of the rules) implies neither resignation nor constraint. As such, there is no freedom in our moral and individual sense of that term, in games. They are not to be equated with liberty. Games do not obey the dialectic of free will, that hypothetical dialectic of the sphere of the real and the law. To enter into a game is to enter a system of ritual obligations. Its intensity derives from its initiatory form - not from our liberty, as we would like to believe, following an ideology that sees only a single, "natural" source of happiness and pleasure. The game's sole principle, though it is never posed as universal, is that by choosing the rule one is delivered from the law. Without a psychological or metaphysical foundation, the rule has no grounding in belief. One neither believes nor disbelieves a rule - one observes it . The diffuse sphere of belief, the need for credibility that encompasses the real, is dissolved in the game. Hence their immorality : to proceed without believing in it, to sanction a direct fascination with conventional signs and groundless rules."
(The Passion for Rules 138)
"According to Baudrillard, what has happened in postmodern culture is that our society has become so reliant on models and maps that we have lost all contact with the real world that preceded the map. Reality itself has begun merely to imitate the model, which now precedes and determines the real world...
Baudrillard is not merely suggesting that postmodern culture is artificial, because the concept of artificiality still requires some sense of reality against which to recognize the artifice. His point, rather, is that we have lost all ability to make sense of the distinction between nature and artifice."**
*Baudrillard, Jean. The Intelligence of Evil. Trans. Chris Turner. London, New York, Bloomsbury, 2005.
**Felluga, Dino. "Modules on Baudrillard: On Simulation." Introductory Guide to Critical Theory, Jan. 31, 2011
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