Movable elements in a decentralised space: reading Baudrillard but thinking of Eno
Hmm, wrong again (apparently). Today I bought this Jean Baudrillard book in a charity shop because - well, partly because - it appeared to have once belonged to Brian Eno. Yeah, a heady mix. Possible ownership name here: Yes, a very neatly done name in small, gentle pencil. Very Eno, no? So, with there being various sentences underlined throughout the book, the prospect of getting a peek into what Eno thought of Baudrillard's ideas (c. 1968) on consumer objects was alluring. Worth a look, anyhow. So how did that all go? Answer: not great. First, the Eno/pencil annotator has marked up only very sparingly and without writing anything themselves whatsoever. Anyway, first a sentence about how "the bourgeois dining-room" had a "closed structure", while a "functional environment" is "more open, freer" and "destructured, fragmented into its various functions", gets a heavily-pencilled "?" (page 17). Next comes a marked-up pas...
