Sign in via your Institution Sign in. But for us today, this un- doubtedly thee only true of their simultaneous decline. For this im- plosive mass, by definition, will siletn explode and every revolutionary promise will implode in- to it as well. That of a glaciation of mean- ing. Before, there is not yet 67 Jean Baudrillard any shadoe after, there is no longer any. In the baudrillaed media society, all the masses can do-and all they will do-is enjoy the spectacle.
For us an untenable hypothesis: The same goes for seduction. The Politics of Truth Michel Foucault. The space of simulation confuses the real 83 Jean Baudrillard with the model. Today, everything has changed: The final sparks of the explosive system, the final attempt to still control an energy of confines, bauudrillard to shrink the confines of energy our fundamental leitmotif so as to save the prin- ciple of expansion and of liberation.
It is the alpha and omega of our modernity, without which the credibility of our social organization would collapse. Thus information dissolves meaning and the social into a sort of nebulous state leading not at all to a surfeit of innovation but to the very con- trary, to total entropy.
Whence that bombardment of signs which the mass is thought to re-echo. It lives well, it eats well, it works just as much as is necessary. He intended to record the fact that nothing happened, to record the non-event. The social will never have had time to lead to socialism, it will have been short-circuited by the hypersocial, by the hyperreality of the social but perhaps socialism is no more than this?
They are the end products of the social, of a now globalised abstract sociality. This silence is unbearable. It is the simulation chamber of the social.
As a mere shadow cast by power, the silent majority and its hyper-real conformity have no meaning and nothing to say to us. To that, terrorism responds by an equally hyper-real act equally caught up from the onset in concentric waves of media and of fascination. It aims at the mass silence, the masses in their silence. It aims at the white magic of simulation, deterrence, of anonymous and random control, and by the black magic of a still greater, more anonymous, arbitrary and more hazardous abstraction; that of the terrorist act.
Remarkably prescient, Baudrillard's meditation on terrorism throws light on post-September 11th delusional fears and political simulations. Jean Baudrillard. Serge Daney. Gilles Deleuze and David Lapoujade. Search Search. No hysteria or potential fascism, but simulation by precipitation of every lost referential. This can be seen in the shift in value from history to the humdrum, from the public sphere to the private sphere.
Now, as Nietzsche well knew, it is in this disregard for a social, psychological, historical truth, in this exercise of simulacra as such, that the maximum of political energy is found, where the political is a game and is not yet given a reason.
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All contemporary 19 Jean Baudrillard systems function on this nebulous entity, on this floating substance whose existence is no longer social, but statistical, and whose only mode of appearance is that of the survey. They no longer have a referent in view, but a model. CS1 French-language sources fr Wikipedia articles with undisclosed paid content from January Pages to import images to Wikidata Articles containing French-language text All stub articles.
For us an untenable hypothesis: This article is also available for rental through DeepDyve. Devon rated it liked it Mar 17, Damla rated it it was amazing Nov 01, Now none of this is true, and both the above are a deception: The auton- omy of the political was inversely proportional to the growing hegemony of the social.
View all 4 comments. Here, too, the production of demand is infinitely more costly than the production of meaning itself. Aug 27, Sema rated it really liked thf. This is also what makes it impossible for the mass to be alienated, since neither the one nor the other exist there any longer. The other is dependent on traditional criminal violence a bank hold-up, sequestration in ex- change for ransom, etc.
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