The Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme PhenomenaVerso, 1993 - 174 páginas In this, his most important collection of essays since Le systeme des objets, Jean Baudrillard contemplates Western culture "after the orgy"—the orgy, that is, of the revolutions of the 1960s. The sexual revolution has led, he argues, not to sexual liberation but to a reign of transvestism, to a confusion of the categories of man and woman—to the "androgenous and Frankenstein appeal of a Michael Jackson." The revolution in art has led to a "transaesthetic realm of indifference." The cybernetic revolution has blurred the distinction between man and machine, while the political revolution has led to a 'transpolitics' that merely simulates old political forms. Such are the points of Baudrillard's compass as he steers his way through the mental landscape of this febrile fin de siecle. |
Índice
After the Orgy 3422 | 14 |
Transsexuality | 20 |
Transeconomics | 26 |
Superconductive Events | 36 |
Operational Whitewash | 44 |
Xerox and Infinity | 51 |
Prophylaxis and Virulence | 60 |
Drives and Repulsions | 71 |
Whatever Happened to Evil? | 81 |
Necrospective | 89 |
The Fate of Energy | 100 |
The Theorem of the Accursed Share | 106 |
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The Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme Phenomena Jean Baudrillard Pré-visualização limitada - 2020 |
The Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme Phenomena Jean Baudrillard Visualização de excertos - 1993 |
The Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme Phenomena Jean Baudrillard Pré-visualização indisponível - 2009 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
abreaction accursed share aesthetic Alakaluf alienated anamorphosis Andy Warhol artificial artificial intelligence become biological body cancer catastrophe cells Cicciolina cloning communication computer viruses culture death destiny difference disappearance dream economy energy everything exist exorcism exoticism extermination fact fascination fatal fin de siècle freedom function human identity illusion indifference intelligence interaction kind law of value live logic longer machines means merely metastasis microbe Minitel modern networks never nuclear object once oneself operation orbital paradoxical Pataphysics phantasy photographic play pleasure political possible precisely principle of Evil production proliferation promiscuity prosthesis psychodrama racism radical exoticism reality realm revolution rules screen secret seduction Segalen sense sexual liberation signs simply simulation social society sort sphere strange attractor strategy surplus-value symbolic terrorism thing tion transcendence transparency transpolitical transsexual transvestitism universal utopia violence viral virtual virulence virus Western
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Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science Alan D. Sokal,Jean Bricmont Pré-visualização limitada - 1999 |
Virginidad E Iniciación Sexual, Experiencias Y Significados Ana Amuchástegui Visualização de excertos - 2001 |