Biosonar Quotes

“Or, rather, there is a duel between them: death toys with life, life toys with death.
Which of the two succumbs?
Stanislaw Lec reverses the terms here: it is not we who defend ourselves against death, it is death that defends itself against us: 'Death resists us, but it gives in in the end.'
Nothing else so stunning as this has ever been said about death.
Needless to say, this dual relationship has nothing to do with interactivity, which is a parody of it. There is nothing interactive in the antagonistic process of reversibility and becoming.
The feminine and the masculine are not 'interactive': that is ridiculous.
Life and the world are not interactive -life isn't a question-and-answer session or a video game.
There is nothing interactive in words when they are articulated in language.
Interactivity is a gigantic mythology, a mythology of integrated systems or of systems craving integration, a mythology in which otherness is lost in feedback, interlocution and interface - a kind of generalized echography.”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact