The Spirit Of Terrorism And Other Essays by Jean Baudrillard
And Other Essays
A series of provocative essays that argue modern political violence functions above all as a symbolic language within a hypermediated, globalized world, where mass media and the logic of simulacra transform events into spectacle and collapse distinctions between reality and representation; through cultural theory and polemic the writer contends that this process exposes the impotence and contradictions of contemporary power, the erosion of symbolic exchange, and the unsettling ways public perception and culpability are reshaped by media saturation.
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- Published
- 2002
- Nationality
- French
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 120-160 pages
- Original Language
- French
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- L'esprit du terrorisme
- L'esprit du terrorisme et autres essais
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