Saturn’s ‘balcony’. Benjamin in the 𝘗𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘬.

An insight Baudrillard casually drops while discussing 9/11.

It’s a little glimpse of the timeline in which Trump and Kamala are married.

Can’t even bring himself to mention Morrissey by name in this little thread.

I like how he’s a dork here, still that awkward entrepreneurial kid with the thinning hair. Humanises him, and also shows that even becoming the second richest man on Earth can’t change you fundamentally.

Expose yourself philosophically with four book covers, given without comment.

So did the Haitians actually eat any pets or this whole thing a Baudrillardian pseudoevent?

Spencer makes a decent point in the second paragraph. Even senior figures don’t seem to care if a story is true; they’ve embraced post-truth. The reply is marvellously Baudrillardian.

Inclined to think there’s no conspiracy but the resemblance is very striking. One of those freakish, inexplicable things.

I don’t understand why they enhance the colours so much in many of these images. The one below (a composite) is enhanced but not excessively. Also the most beautiful Pluto image for my money.

Really want to see a Good Life reboot with the Beckhams. Neighbours Margot and Jerry live 5 miles away.

Sailors, truckers and holiday-makers?

Baudrillard’s entry on ”modernity” for a 1985 encyclopedia(of which below is merely a short extract) remains a brilliant, fascinating text.Could’ve easily been a book.Along with Foucault’s What is Enlightenment? it’s one of the most intriguing things written about the modern era.