Quotation pinched from somone else's journal

[robinturner]

All life in New York is purely artificial & affected -- values are forced & arbitrary, mental fashions are capricious, pathological, or commercial rather than authentic, & literary activity & conversation are motivated by a shallow pose, a sophistical concealment of ignorance, & a morbidly charlatanic egotism & cheap assertiveness ... The "aesthetes" of New York are less interested in art & beauty than in themselves; & their smart badinage & discussion savor much more of psychological exhibitionism & social gesture than of actual artistic insight, vision & devotion.

Is this

(a) Jean Baudrillard
(b) Umberto Eco
(c) H.P. Lovecraft
(d) Oscar Wilde
(e) An anonymous Situationist?