| Jean Baudrillard
Fatal Strategies
| In this shimmering manifesto
against dialectics, Jean Baudrillard constructs a condemnatory
ethics of the “false problem.” One foot in social
science, the other in speculation about the history of ideas,
this text epitomizes the assault that Baudrillard has made
on the history of Western philosophy. Posing such anti-questions
as “Must we put information on a diet?” Baudrillard
cuts across historical and contemporary space with profound
observations on American corporations, arms build-up, hostage-taking,
transgression, truth, and the fate of theory itself. Not only
an important map of Baudrillard's continuing examination of
evil, this essay is also a profound critique of 1980s’ American
politics at the time when the author was beginning to have
his incalculable effect on a generation of this country’s
artists and theorists. |
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