The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact (Talking Images)

Baudrillard, Jean

ISBN 10: 1845203275 / ISBN 13: 9781845203276

Published by Berg Publishers, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact (Talking Images)
• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845203275
• ISBN 13: 9781845203276
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

We are at war. Human cultures are divided into two basic types, two antagonistic forces, one based on symbolic exchange, which is dual and reciprocal, and one based on money and sign exchange, which is totalising. Non-western societies can create genuinely symbolic, durable cultures. But the western world-system, based on a logic of empire, is designed to create an integrated and sealed reality, to snap tight around the world and its image. If the first is indestructible and the second is irresistible, who can win and what will victory look like? The answer may lie in the capacity for violence in the world-system itself, threatening that system from within with the purest of symbolic forms, the challenge of resistance. The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact is the summation of Baudrillard's work over twenty years. It is the essential analysis of the fundamental conflict of our time.

About the Author

Jean Baudrillard is one of the most influential philosophical and cultural critics writing today. His books include Simulacra and Simulation, The Perfect Crime, America, Seduction, The System of Objects, Cool Memories, Symbolic Exchange and Death and the Transparency of Evil. Translated by Chris Turner. Chris Turner has translated many of the key works of French theory over the last two decades, particularly the work of Baudrillard, including most recently, The Spirit of Terrorism.