the dandy
Baudrillard, Radical Alterity p67
“Personally, I think the analysis of the snob is very close to any analysis of the dandy. You said that the snob is more subjective. I disagree. A snob does not claim any universality and has no interiority in principle. For a snob, there is no psychological interiorization of values, signs, or forms; there is only affectation.
Affectation is the snob’s quality. There is also a pejorative nuance concerning affectation in Heidegger’s book. When taken literally , however, it is the sense of artifice of the artificial. There is no origin, no authenticity, no profound reality of things. Everything is formalized, seduced in the sense of being removed from its reality, its substance and its rules.”
