Miscellaneous memos

French philosopher and social theorist Jean Baudrillard dies

Another cultural theorist heavyweight passes on.

For the man who shaped so many of my uni essays, and tried to make postmodernism only a little clearer and told us all to ‘Forget Foucault’. I salute you.

“The simulation of something which never really existed” -Jean Baudrillard on Hyperreality.

Treasurer Peter Costello is all tip and no iceberg while Prime Minister John Howard is a coconut glued to his seat, says former Labor prime minister Paul Keating.

Mr Keating, famed for his insults to opponents during his years in politics, has shown he had not lost his touch in the 11 years since his political career ended at the 1996 election.

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