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Screened Out by Jean Baudrillard
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Screened Out (original 2002; edition 2002)

by Jean Baudrillard, Chris Turner (Translator)

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'Watching the president's Christmas message produces this necropolar, white-mass sensation. Seeing the video broadcast of the Christmas service in the cathedral itself, with these pathetic screens and the young worshippers slumped around them here and there, you tell yourself that God and religion deserved better. Deserved to die, yes, but not this. However, watching the presidential figure and his sonorous inanity, you tell yourself that here at least you got what you deserved. Chirac is useless – that goes without saying – but so are we all ... Uselessness of this kind has no origin: it exists immediately, reciprocally; like a shared secret, you savour it implicitly – with its warm bitterness – particularly in these cold snaps, as the very essence of the social bond. Sanctioned by that other interactive uselessness – the uselessness of the screen.' World-renowned for his lively and often iconoclastic reading of contemporary culture and thought, Jean Baudrillard here turns his hand to topical political debates and issues. In this stimulating collection of journalistic essays Baudrillard addresses subjects ranging from those already established as his trademark (virtual reality, Disney, television) to more unusual topics such as the Western intervention in Bosnia, children's rights, Holocaust revisionism, AIDS, the Rushdie fatwa, Formula One racing, mad cow disease, genetic cloning, and the uselessness of Chirac. These are coruscating and intriguing articles, not least because they show that Baudrillard is – pace his critics – still susceptible and alert to influences from social movements and the world beyond the hyperreal.… (more)
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Authors:Jean Baudrillard
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Los acontecimientos son lo que son, no hay elección. sólo Contamos con la elección de los conceptos; pero es una lección a la que hay que aferrarse. de ningún modo debemos permitir que los acontecimientos nos impongan la suya: su figura ideológica y su escenificación en la información.
En este orden de cosas, cualquier acontecimiento puede valer. Cada acontecimiento encierra toda la situación en un momento dado, siempre que se le aísle del montaje propagandístico de los acontecimientos. Hay que luchar contra ese bluff de los eventos, y debe encontrarse en el acontecimiento lo que constituye el acontecimiento, es decir lo que excede cualquier interpretación, cualquier idea convencional de lo político y de la historia. no lo que el análisis puede someter a sus propios fines, si no precisamente lo que se resiste, lo que se nos oculta, lo que resulta equivoco a través de los hechos. hay que eliminar, pues, esa pantalla total tras la cual actúan la apariencia y el resentimiento, hay que Encontrar el punto doloroso, neurálgico, alrededor del cual se articula la corrupción de un sistema, y que puede ser una vaca loca, una huelga o el fantasma de françois mitterrand…
es tentador interrogar la teoría, no en lo que pueda tener de cierto, sino como reto a la realidad, Cómo reto lanzado al acontecimiento de desmentirla. La Crónica sólo puede proceder de un determinado número de ideas procedentes de otro lugar, pero el desafío consiste en someter la sala prueba de una actualidad imprevisible. radicalidad, subversión, simulación, ilusión: Cómo todas estas dimensiones se entrelazan. se actualizan en nuestro universo, que prácticamente ha quedado sin referencias, sin historia y sin memoria y que ya está en gran medida inmerso en la cuarta dimensión de lo virtual. no es otro el propósito de este libro: ocuparse en sentido inverso de la actualidad qué acaparado las portadas de los medios de comunicación —un poco más acá, un poco más allá de la verdad.
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'Watching the president's Christmas message produces this necropolar, white-mass sensation. Seeing the video broadcast of the Christmas service in the cathedral itself, with these pathetic screens and the young worshippers slumped around them here and there, you tell yourself that God and religion deserved better. Deserved to die, yes, but not this. However, watching the presidential figure and his sonorous inanity, you tell yourself that here at least you got what you deserved. Chirac is useless – that goes without saying – but so are we all ... Uselessness of this kind has no origin: it exists immediately, reciprocally; like a shared secret, you savour it implicitly – with its warm bitterness – particularly in these cold snaps, as the very essence of the social bond. Sanctioned by that other interactive uselessness – the uselessness of the screen.' World-renowned for his lively and often iconoclastic reading of contemporary culture and thought, Jean Baudrillard here turns his hand to topical political debates and issues. In this stimulating collection of journalistic essays Baudrillard addresses subjects ranging from those already established as his trademark (virtual reality, Disney, television) to more unusual topics such as the Western intervention in Bosnia, children's rights, Holocaust revisionism, AIDS, the Rushdie fatwa, Formula One racing, mad cow disease, genetic cloning, and the uselessness of Chirac. These are coruscating and intriguing articles, not least because they show that Baudrillard is – pace his critics – still susceptible and alert to influences from social movements and the world beyond the hyperreal.

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