The Spirit of Terrorism
ISBN: 9781781680209
Size: 129 * 197
Weight: 114 g
Page no.: 112
Publish year: 2013
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 “Hypotheses on Terrorism” and “Violence of the Global.”