tailieunhanh - intellect Crash Culturesmodernity, mediation and the material phần 6

mô phỏng thông qua trao đổi biểu tượng orgiastic giữa sự sống và cái chết, cơ thể và công nghệ (Butterfield 1999: 73). Nếu sự sụp đổ là một hình thức trao đổi biểu tượng trong ý nghĩa Baudrillard của thuật ngữ này, nó chắc chắn sẽ cung cấp một nguyên tắc tối giản sự khác biệt triệt để trong bản thể học cyborg chức năng luận, | Cyborgian Subjects and the Auto-Destruction of Metaphor simulation via an orgiastic symbolic exchange between life and death the body and technology Butterfield 1999 73 . If the crash were a form of symbolic exchange in Baudrillard s sense of this term it would assuredly supply a principle of radical difference irreducible within the functionalist cyborg ontology we have been considering. As the principle of the extermination of value by fabulously uncodifiable events and acts it enjoins the destruction not only of the subjects and identities of traditional philosophy and political theory but also a kind of systemic collapse of the situated subjectivities explored by Haraway Marsden and others. Within Baudrillard s Manichaean universe symbolic death would be the one political response to the banality of signs. For this reason Baudrillard s reading of Crash implies an immanent critique of Haraway s affirmative response to the universe of simulation. Crash s symbolic violence would claim social relevance by iterating the logic of the social beyond the point at which its technically mediated imaginary could be sustained Butterfield 1999 73-4 . Terminal Metaphor Baudrillard s symbolic arguably involves a reification of structure which underemphasises the degree to which the slippage of difference conditions the function of signs in all Without this inflation of the code the very idea of its asemic other becomes dialectically self-stultifying. However if there is a defect in Baudrillard s reading of Ballard s novel it is not its philosophical ellipsis - the hyperfunctional is surely not the other of the functional - but its peremptory elision of metaphor. While Baudrillard s incendiary logic ascribes to the crash the function of extirpating the social facade of functionality a sufficiently close reading of Ballard s text shows that it also operates as the terminal metaphor of an entirely different polity a virulent algorithm fermenting desire from excremental