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Theodor Adorno 

It is not up to philosophy to exaust things accroding to scientific sage, to reduce the phenomena to a minimum of propositions ... Instead in philosophy we literally seek to immerse ourselves in things that are heterogeneous ... without placing those things in prefabricated categories.
Negative Dialectics
Resources Essay's and Interviews

Jean Baudrillard 

Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or a substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origins or reality: a hyperreal.
Simulations
Resources
  • Baudrillard on the Web --a list of links to works about and by Jean Baudrillard (source of many of these links)
  • Project Baudrillard --a posting of ongoing conversations that haggle over what Baudrillard says.
  • BAUDRILLARD: --a listserv discussion group of all things Baudrillard..
  • Directory of the Third (dis)Order --a searchable, indexed guide to key terms and concepts in the works of Jean Baudrillard (archived version from the late 90's). 
  • Implosion! --an examination of the significance and meaning of "implosion" by Alan Taylor. (1995)
  • Mobius Baudrillard --a hypertext project by Erica J. Seidel. (1996)
  • S(t)imulacrum(b) --overview and annotated bibliography by Ben Attias.
Essay's and Interviews

Jacques Derrida

(Remark: the--written--text of this--oral communication was to have been addressed to the Association of French Speaking Societies of Philosophy before the meeting. Such a missive therefore had to be signed. Which I did, and counterfeit here. Where? There. J.D )
Resources
  • Short Bibliography --University of California, Irvine.
  • BLANCHOT --an electronic forum for discussion and experimentation  pertaining to the writings of Maurice Blanchot and his intersections with Derrida.
  • Derrida Online --resources for Derrida online. Everything from impromptu remarks to an exclusive interview.
  • Jacques Derrida --an annotated list of net resources by Scott Moore.
  • Derrida Profile --reprinted from Microsoft Encarta.
Essay's and Interviews

Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari

We live today in the age of partial objects, bricks that have been shattered to bits, and leftovers ... We no longer believe in a primordial totality that once existed, or in a final totality that awaits us at some future date. 
Anti-Oedipus
Resources Essay's and Interviews

Michel Foucault

Free political action from all unitary and totalizing paranoia. Develop action, thought, and desires by proliferation, juxtaposition, and disjunction, and not by subdivision and pyramidal hierarchization.
in preface to D&G's anti-oedipus
Resources Essay's and Interviews

Antonio Gramsci

One must speak for a struggle for a new culture, that is, for a new moral life that cannot but be intimately connected to a new intuition of life, until it becomes a new way of feeling and seeing reality.
from Selections from cultural writings
Resources Essay's and Interviews