SPIRIT OF TERRORISM PA (REV)
SPIRIT OF TERRORISM PA (REV)
- ISBN 13:
9781859844489
- ISBN 10:
1859844480
- Edition: 00
- Format: Trade Paper
- Copyright: 10/17/2003
- Publisher: VERSO
- Newer Edition
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Summary
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 up-dated with the essays 'Hypotheses on Terrorism' and 'Violence of the Global'.