The Spirit of Terrorism
Jean Baudrillard, "The Spirit of Terrorism"
ISBN: 1781680205 | 2013 | EPUB | 112 pages | 2 MB
Baudrillard sees the power of the terrorists as lying in the symbolism of slaughter–not merely the reality of death, but in a sacrifice that challenges the whole system. Where previously the old revolutionary sought to conduct a struggle between real forces in the context of ideology and politics, the new terrorist mounts a powerful symbolic challenge which, when combined with high-tech resources, constitutes an unprecedented assault on an over-sophisticated and vulnerable West. This new edition is up-dated with the essays & Hypotheses on Terrorism and Violence of the Global