Thursday, March 12, 2009

Epic fail: Baudrillard on "the obese"

I had to break up with Baudrillard. I stumbled upon some of his theory around fatness, and came to the unfortunate realization that it's really over. Somehow, fat people are cancerous, we have boundary issues, and we're so obscenely excessive we're (gasp!) bordering on transsexual. Quotes by & about Baudrillard & the fatties:

“It is like the obese person who keeps on getting fatter, the record rotating endlessly in the same groove, the cells of a tumour proliferating, like everything that has lost the formula for stopping itself.”

"The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy."

“Baudrillard’s version of the viscous is the obese—also ‘an obscene mass’ that does not ‘separate body from the non-body.’ The obese knows no ‘limits’ and thus is without ‘transcendence.’”

“What makes the obese obscene is that the body is superfluous.”

“Baudrillard rails against this eradication of boundaries in his castigation of the ‘orgiastic’ excess of the transaesthetic, the transsexual, the transpolitical.”

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