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The Hyperreal Plague: How Girard & Baudrillard Explain the Pandemic with Geoffrey Shullenberger

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Is There a End to This Collision?

Rabet tiv: I mean, this rapid cycling between global crises. It's really truly quite schitsophranic and insane. And it is exactly what gerard talks about when he talks about how, you know, this stuff bubbles up to a planetary scale. The implication that he makes in this book is basically that this process basely dooms humanity to annihilate itself. He doesn't even try to propose a solution. But i tend to be on the side that argues against people who are sort of predicting imminent collapse or predict civil war. That that makes me think there's a disjunction between em yet with the kind of informational realm in which everything unfolds. Rabet

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