We've posted quite a bit on McKenzie Wark's forthcoming Gamer Theory, and now we've learned that one of the foremost intellectual figures of our time has seen fit to comment on Wark's work. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has the following to say about Jean Baudrillard:
French theorist Jean Baudrillard is one of the foremost intellectual figures of the present age whose work combines philosophy, social theory, and an idiosyncratic cultural metaphysics that reflects on key events of phenomena of the epoch.
Anyone who has read works like Simulacra and Simulation or The Gulf War Never Happened knows how provocative and original Baudrillard's thinking is. Having got hold of the French translation of Wark's previous book, A Hacker Manifesto, Baudrillard had the following to say about what Wark has accomplished:
Le texte de Ken est inouï, son propos et sa construction, son mouvement, ce qui se produit, tout, c'est jubilatoire. Cela me fait rire et m'intéresse. Cela m'intéresse en tout.
Translated, that means:
This text by Ken is unprecedented, in its content and construction, its movement, what it produces, everything, is a jubilation. It makes me laugh and interests me. It interests me completely.
Gamer Theory is out next April; stay tuned for more on what it is, what it's about, and what it all means.
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