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Jean Baudrillard is "a talisman: a symptom, a sign, a charm, and above all, a password into the next universe," (Kroker and Levin, BC 5); if you read too much Baudrillard "you are in danger of turning into a hyper-reader, and transforming the text under the power of your imagination into something of the sort it became in the hands of the Neo Geos and their apologists. At this point you are taking Baudrillard too seriously," (Danto, 48); "Baudrillard has begun to work equally hard at playing the Disappearing Theorist. He has progressively and deliberately abandoned the protocols of systematic research, scrupulous argument, thesis formulation, 'critique' -- in favor of a style of personal jotting (and jaunting) about the world ... this travelling man is no Mad Max. There's no sense in Baudrillard's glass bubble that anything nasty might happen," (Morris, HR, 28-9). "The upshot of Baudrillard's analyses is to license a kind of intellectual dandyism," (Callinicos, 147). And so, "in the end, does Theory ... come to embrace itself as work-of-art, dire object, and absolute commodity," (Morris, 101, 210).
Vingt-deuxième groupe de communication mondial par le chiffre d’affaires — Time Warner et News Corporation (Murdoch) étant les deux premiers —, deuxième groupe français (derrière Vivendi), TF1 occupe une place exceptionnelle dans l’univers de la télévision française : plus de 30% de part de marché et, surtout, plus de la moitié des recettes publicitaires du secteur. Cette puissance et son contrôle d’autres chaînes (LCI en particulier) lui ont permis de se préserver des observations désobligeantes que son comportement mercantile aurait pu lui valoir de la part des responsables politiques, artistiques et médiatiques — tous soucieux de diffuser leur action et de promouvoir leurs journaux (plusieurs titres de la presse parisienne disposent d’une émission sur LCI), leurs spectacles ou leurs livres.
Among the best-kept secrets of American visual culture are those plastic-lettered, brightly illuminated religious message boards that beseech all to “Repent Now,” “Be Saved” or “Make Us Instruments of Your Peace and Love.” Though in plain sight, they are virtually invisible, and like those ubiquitous convenience store displays announcing gas or egg prices, the average religious signboard offers the essentials — usually times and dates for worship or a spiritual bromide. But in CHURCH SIGNS ACROSS AMERICA (Overlook, $19.95), the photographers Steve Paulson and Pam Paulson have found and documented the uncommon poetry and sly wit used to rouse the flock, and the book is curiously inspirational.