Fatal strategies

by BAUDRILLARD, Jean

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Title Statements

Full title :Fatal strategies / Jean Baudrillard ; introduction by Dominic Pettman ; translated by Philip Beitchman and W.G.J. Niesluchowski.

Summary

"Fatal Strategies was first published in France in 1983, two years after Baudrillard's Simulations, with its descriptions of a world in which original and copy, real and false have become indistinguishable. Fatal Strategies takes us one step further with a paradoxical question: if plans of action have become ineffective, can the hyperreal world we live in be challenged by another kind of logic that would come with the inevitability of fate?" "Outwardly geared to progress and production, ruled by linearity, cause and effect, and accumulation, contemporary societies remain unaware that they have already outgrown their raison d'etre and finalities. In Fatal Strategies, Baudrillard is looking for a rule immanent to the system, a fatal game (more final than final) capable of dismantling, challenging, and reversing the world of simulation. Bypassing subjectivity in favor of an "objective irony," Baudrillard is here reinventing theory as narration, a playful, provocative proposition, and all the more implacable for that."--BOOK JACKET.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2008.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Distributed by the MIT Press, Semiotext(e)
Place of Publication:Los Angeles, CA
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2008.

The Physical Object

Description:230 pages ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781584350613, 158435061X
oclc:ocn181142528
LC Classification:HN16
Dewey Decimal:306

Introduction: a belated invitation to the orgy -- Ecstasy and inertia -- Figures of the transpolitical -- Ironic strategies -- The object and its destiny -- For a principle of evil.

Subjects

Civilisation -- 20e siècle Civilization, Modern Civilization, Modern -- 20th century Postmodernism Postmodernisme Problèmes sociaux social issues Social problems