retro-quotes: a series of germane remarks, by others, plucked from all over the place, and from all over the time
"[Baudrillard's] vision of contemporary society exhibits a careening of growth and excrescence (croissance et excroissance),
expanding and excreting ever more goods, services, information, messages or
demands — surpassing all rational ends and boundaries in a spiral of
uncontrolled growth and replication. Yet
growth, acceleration, and proliferation have reached such extremes, Baudrillard
suggests, that the ecstasy of excrescence (i.e., increasing numbers of goods)
is accompanied by inertia. The process of growth presents a catastrophe for the
subject, for not only does the acceleration and proliferation of the object
world intensify the aleatory dimension of chance and non-determinacy, but the
objects themselves come to dominate the exhausted subject, whose fascination
with the play of objects turns to apathy, stupefaction, and inertia."
-- unknown writer, entry on Baudrillard, from Stanford Guide to Philosophy
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