this week baudrillard died.
i want to know how quickly his wikipedia entry was changed. i want to know if someone’s first thought on hearing he was dead was to edit wikipedia.
btw his wikipedia page contains this:
This article is about a recently deceased person.
Some information, such as the circumstances of the person’s death and surrounding events, may change rapidly as more facts become known.
i wonder how many of these “standard” messages wikipedia utilises.
i’m not such a big fan of his, though he has his moments. i thought about him when i was looking at the hype over metaweb’s “freebase”. he said something like:
it is in complete freedom that the masses refuse meaning
i hesitate to say it, but i don’t even know what meaning, er, means. when it comes to meaning i go with cs peirce, that it is something collective, that can be measured only by its effects. i’d take useful over meaning.
