Tag Archives: Baudrillard

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Ian Dunmore’s Punk Ethos in Government IT

A personal reflection on my friendship with Ian Dunmore and the rise and fall of Public Sector Forums, exploring how his punk, do-it-yourself ethos created a space for civil servants to speak truth to power, and why those edges still matter today. Follow-up articles will touch on some of the hijinks he got me into (I got myself into), like being sacked and reinstated from my dream job, all within one day.

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Brothers Against the Day: Dostoevsky, Derrida, Pynchon and Baudrillard at the End of the Sign

This article weaves together the philosophical contours of Derridean deconstruction, Baudrillardian hyperreality, and semiotic theory to interrogate the literary universes of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Thomas Pynchon. A Semiotic Descent into Hyperreality, Paranoia, and the Collapse of Meaning

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Entropy and the Implosion of Meaning: Pynchon in the Age of Baudrillard’s Hyperreality

This essay explores the work of Thomas Pynchon through the critical apparatus of Jean Baudrillard, with particular focus on the concepts of simulation, hyperreality, and the implosion of the real. Rather than offering a totalising reading, this essay stages a dialogue between two elusive figures, Pynchon, the postmodern novelist of paranoia and systems, and Baudrillard, the post-Marxist theorist of simulacra and the symbolic collapse of the real.

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