The Spirit of Terrorism
Until September 11 we had had no symbolic event on a world scale that marked a setback for globalization itself.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 updated with the essays Hypothes…
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- ISBN: 978-1-78168-987-5
- EAN: 9781781689875
- Produktnummer: 20455909
- Verlag: Verso
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 96 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'717 KB
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