Theoretical analysis itself accelerates the freezing of meaning it claims to study

Evidence

Analysis is itself perhaps the decisive element of the immense process of the freezing over of meaning. The surplus of meaning that theories bring, their competition at the level of meaning is completely secondary in relation to their coalition in the glacial and four-tiered operation of dissection and transparency. One must be conscious that, no matter how the analysis proceeds, it proceeds toward the freezing over of meaning, it assists in the precession of simulacra and of indifferent forms. The desert grows. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 524

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Self-refuting performative claim — analysis assists the glaciation of meaning even in this very text — resists easy summary; the reader could sit with the paradox for days.
• XREF: Direct contrast to Jameson, who retains analysis as a (possibly Marxist) critical tool; Baudrillard denies even this, a sharp axis for the reader’s Jameson-vs-Baudrillard comparison.