For Baudrillard, the attacks on the World Trade Center were the first and the last symbolic event of global significance. With the World Trade Center, terrorism destroyed the center of Western imperialism that existed worldwide. The terrorist events thereafter have […]
Baudrillard: The victory of Terrorism
Translations: French The return of violent identitarian emotions fueled by nationalism, racism and religious fanaticism prompts us to pose the question of fascism as something more than just identifiable enemies we can combat. Is fascism a kind of sickness, hidden
taken from ediciones-ineditos In the wake of the riot of Mexican-Americans in East Los Angeles on August 29, 1970 (with an encore on September 16), the various mouthpieces of the “left” have as usual raised their tiresome duststorm of
Riot and Representation: The Significance of The Chicano Riot
Internationale Situationniste #6 (August 1961) Translated by Ken Knabb 1. Nothingness of Urbanism and Nothingness of the Spectacle URBANISM DOESN’T EXIST; it is only an “ideology” in Marx’s sense of the word. Architecture does really exist, like Coca-Cola: though coated
Basic Program of the Bureau of Unitary Urbanism
Transkription eines Vortrags der im Oktober 2015 bei der ‘retrospektive’ [event] des “institut de destabilisation” im MultiVersum (Offenbach) gehalten wurde. Sowohl Skript als auch die Aufnahme waren zwischenzeitlich verloren und sind nun wieder aufgetaucht: „Womöglich gilt es darzulegen, dass die
Sidenotes to Hauntology // Randnotizen zur Hantologie
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Yet, let us add that the accumulated capital is that of the Subject who has become a total image, immersed in a world of information where reality is nothing but a copy of copies. One of the first texts to
Guy Debord: Beyond the Society of The Spectacle
The growth of computational, media and communications technology has conditioned a change in mass culture. The consumerist subject fabricated by media has become the object of desire. The capitalist subject auto-replicates as the consumer, whose life is a re-enactment of