The Spirit of Terrorism (repost)
The Spirit of Terrorism By Jean Baudrillard, Chris Turner
Publisher: Verso 2003 | 120 Pages | ISBN: 1859844480 | PDF | 5 MB
Publisher: Verso 2003 | 120 Pages | ISBN: 1859844480 | PDF | 5 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".