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I still fw the vision. But I don’t think he was trying that hard. I agree with the other review who said this is provocative nonsense.
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The Gulf War Did Not Take Place
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In a provocative analysis written during the unfolding drama of 1992, Baudrillard draws on his concepts of simulation and the hyperreal to argue that the Gulf War did not take place but was a carefully scripted media event―a "virtual" war. Patton’s introduction argues that Baudrillard, more than any other critic of the Gulf War, correctly identified the stakes involved in the gestation of the New World Order.
96 pages, Paperback
First published September 23,1991
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96 pages, Paperback
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October 22, 1995 by Indiana University Press
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9780253210036
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0253210038
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English
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Jean Baudrillard was a French sociologist, philosopher and poet, with interest in cultural studies. He is best known for his analyses of media, contemporary culture, and technological communication, as well as his formulation of concepts such as hyperreality. Baudrillard wrote about diverse subjects, including consumerism, critique of economy, social history, aesthetics, Western foreign policy, and popular culture. Among his most well-known works are Seduction (1978), Simulacra and Simulation (1981), America (1986), and The Gulf War Did Not Take Place (1991). His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and specifically post-structuralism. Nevertheless, Baudrillard had also opposed post-structuralism, and had distanced himself from postmodernism.
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Leído de una sentada. Precisa interésenos y digno sucesor de Debord. Bellisimamente escrito y gran labor del traductor
La guerra del golfo fue como “la utilización del preservativo ampliada al acto bélico: ¡haced la guerra, como el amor, con preservativo!”
Sobre la guerra del golfo como necesidad del capital y sobreproducción de mercancías hay mucho
“Vencido o no, Sadam tiene garantizada una imagen de marca carismática inolvidable. Vencedor o no, el armamento americano habrá adquirido una imagen de marca tecnológica sin parangón. Y el gasto suntuario de material equivale ya al de una guerra real, aun cuando ésta no llegue a producirse.”
La guerra del golfo fue como “la utilización del preservativo ampliada al acto bélico: ¡haced la guerra, como el amor, con preservativo!”
Sobre la guerra del golfo como necesidad del capital y sobreproducción de mercancías hay mucho
“Vencido o no, Sadam tiene garantizada una imagen de marca carismática inolvidable. Vencedor o no, el armamento americano habrá adquirido una imagen de marca tecnológica sin parangón. Y el gasto suntuario de material equivale ya al de una guerra real, aun cuando ésta no llegue a producirse.”
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Baudrillard is a genius. A postmodern prophet.
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I got it into my head that I wanted to read this back in 2021 when my lecturer mentioned it in a Media Studies class and while it was interesting it wasn't the gamechanger that he had made it out to be.
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Not his strongest work tbh. I liked the discussion about the media apparatus & the virtuality of war & how it’s all scripted in the postmodern era, but what the heck else was the rest of it.
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Never have I read anything nearly as interesting written in such an unintelligible manner. The ideas Baudrillard presents are interesting, but not only is the similes and analogies odd (such as the UN awaking in a glass coffin and giving birth to the New World Order), but the structure of the essays make it incredibly difficult to follow. He also descends into mindless drivel from time to time, only managing to jumble everything else up.
There are some interesting points here, but these essays do not rank anywhere close to his masterpieces. His content is summarised in a much clearer and more succinct manner by the translator in the introduction, and reading further than that was frankly a waste of time.
There are some interesting points here, but these essays do not rank anywhere close to his masterpieces. His content is summarised in a much clearer and more succinct manner by the translator in the introduction, and reading further than that was frankly a waste of time.
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I understood all these words separately but together not so much
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a precarious argument from the onset. kept imagining baudrillard smugly grinning and patting himself on the back as he wrote psuedo-meaningful sentences such as 'hard war and soft war go boating' - got annoyed.
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