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There are few philosophers today cool enough to be referenced in the Matrix, interesting enough to be mentioned on Six Feet Under, and popular enough to get over 606,000 hits on Google. Jean Baudrillard has succeeded in all of this and more. Now, in his latest book, Baudrillard presents his most popular themes--symbolic exchange, hyper-reality, technology and war--and applies them to the current global conflict between "the West and the Rest", including Islam. Ultimately, it is not simply about the war against terror but about the bigger picture of capitalism versus everything else. This book serves as the summation of Baudrillard's work over the last twenty years and is the essential analysis of the fundamental conflict of our time.
Series: Talking Images
Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Berg Publishers; 1st edition (December 1, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1845203348
ISBN-13: 978-1845203344
Product Dimensions: 5 x 1 x 7 inches
Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
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For anyone casting about for a place to begin with Baudrillard, this might be a good place to start. It is a sort of summing up of his main themes, and the curious reader who has heard about such things as 'simulacra,' 'virtual reality,' 'integral reality,' and the like can rest assured that he will find Baudrillard discoursing here upon the themes which made him most famous.Is there enough room, Baudrillard asks, for both the world and its (virtual) double? As we attempt to seal the world shut beneath a dome of virtuality that attempts to eliminate all forms of noise and chaos, the inherent evil in the world continually resists this Western sanitization in the form of accidents, crashes, terrorist violence and natural disasters. The attempt to virtualize the world is simultaneously an attempt to eliminate all forms of evil from it, but Baudrillard seems fairly confident that this will never happen. A complete sealing shut of the world behind a dome of virtuality can never be a success since evil is part of the very nature of the world that is in process of being cloned. To clone the world is also to clone its evil.Baudrillard is at his best when discoursing upon the death of the spectator or the effects of electronic technology upon society, but he is less effective in his discussions of ethics and evil. The reader constantly finds himself fighting the urge to categorize Baudrillard as Manichean, but this is a myth that is too radically certain of itself to fit comfortably within Baudrillard's nihilism, with its decentered and ironic gaze. At times, though, one suspects Baudrillard of being a closet mystic. Wouldn't THAT be a wonderful irony! At the root of all his sceptical perspectives would lie an urge to be free of Western culture forms and to dissolve himself into the white radiance of a non-existent certainty.--John David Ebert, author of "The New Media Invasion" (McFarland Books, 2011)
For anyone already familiar with the uncanny postmodern think of Baudrillard, this will be a post-Mort wake-up: JB clarifies any lingering fear that he dismisses physical reality, he adds a dualistic twist between the duel & the amorphous to his model of simulacra orders, and he ends on an odd note of humanistic hope (to my ear).
What can I say in praise of this collection of brilliant essays that hasn't already been written? Baudrillard was at the height of his powers to dazzle and disturb us with his insights when he first published this volume. This new English translation conveys the great postmodern critic's ideas with lucidity.
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