The more someone insists that the security services and various elites, operating through obscured and camouflaged channels, have in fact artificially produced what we take to be the history of the last couple of centuries (at least), the more likely that person is to arrive (pre-arrive, really) at the conclusion that we must throw off this entire insidious infrastructure and return to some form of national and political transparency, so that things will in fact be something like what they have so far only seemed to be—that is, determined by identifiable and intelligible social agents and goals, whatever we might think of those agents and goals. In fact, the motivation behind discovering layer after layer of conspiracy is exactly that—to get to what is assumed or projected to be at the core of social relations, once all the obfuscating layers have been peeled back. But the problem here is obvious—we have landed in Baudrillardian territory, in which the latest portrayal of “nature” is simply the most advanced simulation.
GAE, Unironically
GAE, Unironically
GAE, Unironically
The more someone insists that the security services and various elites, operating through obscured and camouflaged channels, have in fact artificially produced what we take to be the history of the last couple of centuries (at least), the more likely that person is to arrive (pre-arrive, really) at the conclusion that we must throw off this entire insidious infrastructure and return to some form of national and political transparency, so that things will in fact be something like what they have so far only seemed to be—that is, determined by identifiable and intelligible social agents and goals, whatever we might think of those agents and goals. In fact, the motivation behind discovering layer after layer of conspiracy is exactly that—to get to what is assumed or projected to be at the core of social relations, once all the obfuscating layers have been peeled back. But the problem here is obvious—we have landed in Baudrillardian territory, in which the latest portrayal of “nature” is simply the most advanced simulation.