Re: Baudrillard

["Ricardo Duchesne" <RDUCHESN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Date sent:      Sun, 11 Jan 1998 12:26:46 -0800
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> From:           James Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject:        Baudrillard

> Louis writes: >On the eve of the Gulf War, [Baudrillard] argued that
> television made actual war superfluous. <
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> Baudrillard was absurd, but it sure suggests the recent Robert de
> Niro/Dustin Hoffman flick "Wag the Dog," in which a spin doctor and a
> Hollywood producer conjure up an imaginary war with Albania in order to
> distract the US electorate from the incumbent President's being caught
> hitting on a 13-year-old girl. It's the flick that "Canadian Bacon" was
> meant to be, complete with interesting (if a bit repetitive) insights into
> the Gulf War.


Nothing absurd about Baudrillard's analysis of the Gulf war. The war
was hardly "real" in that we merely experienced it through a
series of entangled simulated images...Callinicos is not to be
trusted on Baudrillard, or any postmodernist; he has yet to outgrow
the infantilism  of international revolution.

ricardo





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