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Free Download Jean Baudrillard, Chris Turner, "Screened Out"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1781681554, 1859846602 | EPUB | pages: 208 | 1.8 mb
'Watching the president's Christmas message produces this necropolar, white-mass sensation. Seeing the video broadcast of the Christmas service in the cathedral itself, with these pathetic screens and the young worshippers slumped around them here and there, you tell yourself that God and religion deserved better. Deserved to die, yes, but not this. However, watching the presidential figure and his sonorous inanity, you tell yourself that here at least you got what you deserved. Chirac is useless - that goes without saying - but so are we all ... Uselessness of this kind has no origin: it exists immediately, reciprocally; like a shared secret, you savour it implicitly - with its warm bitterness - particularly in these cold snaps, as the very essence of the social bond. Sanctioned by that other interactive uselessness - the uselessness of the screen.'
In this stimulating collection of journalistic essays, Jean Baudrillarddelves into a host of subjects, ranging from those of his familiarstomping ground (virtual reality, Disney, television) to topicsfurther afield, such as children's rights, holocaust revisionism, AIDS,Formula One racing, mad cow disease and cloning. These intriguingarticles demonstrate the true range of Baudrillard's thought and theversatility of the concepts that founded his philosophy.
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