thinking about JB for a few minutes

"Baudrillard is not disputing the trivial issue that reason remains operative in some actions, that if I want to arrive at the next block, for example, I can assume a Newtonian universe (common sense), plan a course of action (to walk straight for X meters, carry out the action, and finally fulfil my goal by arriving at the point in question). What is in doubt is that this sort of thinking enables a historically informed grasp of the present in general. According to Baudrillard, it does not. " [emphasis mine]

- Mark Poster, in the introduction to Selected Writings

I see Baudrillard as almost a hyper-functionalist. If you didn't change anything, you didn't do anything. His position as I see it is similar (but not transposable) to the PKDian one of "The Empire Never Ended".