tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531553.post3393562911835622193..comments2023-06-27T01:34:35.359-07:00Comments on Ted Burke LIKE IT OR NOT: The Poverty of Theory and the Burial of Poetic MeaningTED BURKEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16610296721891201100noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531553.post-61052207007934022422007-03-23T13:40:00.000-07:002007-03-23T13:40:00.000-07:00It seems to me, from my memory of not that much re...It seems to me, from my memory of not that much reading of him, that Baudrillard was not so much a literary or art or even culture critic as a philosopher or, yes, theoretician attempting to come to grips with and explicate the "reality" (non-existent as it may be) of life, modern life, whatever. From this perspective art, literature, culture itself are merely symptoms of his central concerns, the signs we need to see through (if at all possible) to understand what we really need to know. Insofar as we believe poetry is "about" anything, i.e., meaning, I don't see how we can deny that his perspective is "better," if that means anything, than that of the mere producer of artifacts that are, at best, the raw material on and of which theory is built.rastlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08350390233986719001noreply@blogger.com