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- catalog abstract ""We have seen many world events, and recent years have been filled with any number of violent ones, from wars to genocides. But until September 11 we had no symbolic event on a world scale that marked a setback for globalization itself. With the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we are confronted, says Baudrillard, with the pure event which concentrates in itself all the events which have never taken place. And we had all dreamt of this event because it was impossible not to dream of the destruction of American monopolistic power." "Continuing an analysis developed over many years, Baudrillard sees the power of the terrorist as lying in the symbolism of this slaughter. Not merely the reality of death, but a sacrificial death which challenges the whole system. Where the past revolutionary sought to conduct a struggle of 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, vulnerable West."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Esprit du terrorisme. English".
- catalog contributor b12620182.
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""We have seen many world events, and recent years have been filled with any number of violent ones, from wars to genocides. But until September 11 we had no symbolic event on a world scale that marked a setback for globalization itself. With the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we are confronted, says Baudrillard, with the pure event which concentrates in itself all the events which have never taken place. And we had all dreamt of this event because it was impossible not to dream of the destruction of American monopolistic power." "Continuing an analysis developed over many years, Baudrillard sees the power of the terrorist as lying in the symbolism of this slaughter. Not merely the reality of death, but a sacrificial death which challenges the whole system. Where the past revolutionary sought to conduct a struggle of 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, vulnerable West."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "52 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Spirit of terrorism and requiem for the Twin Towers.".
- catalog identifier "1859844111".
- catalog isFormatOf "Spirit of terrorism and requiem for the Twin Towers.".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "Translated from the French.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog language "engfre".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : Verso,".
- catalog relation "Spirit of terrorism and requiem for the Twin Towers.".
- catalog subject "973.931 21".
- catalog subject "HV6431 .B38 2002".
- catalog subject "September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.".
- catalog subject "Symbolism in politics.".
- catalog subject "Terrorism Psychological aspects.".
- catalog subject "Terrorism.".
- catalog title "Esprit du terrorisme. English".
- catalog title "The spirit of terrorism and requiem for the Twin Towers / Jean Baudrillard ; translated by Chris Turner.".
- catalog type "text".