Intelligence, Evil, Lucid Pact

The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact Jean Baudrillard We are at war. Human cultures are divided into two basic types, two antagonistic forces, one based on symbolic exchange, which is dual and reciprocal, and one based on money and sign exchange, which is totalising. Non-western societies can create genuinely symbolic, durable cultures. But the western world-system, based on a logic of empire, is designed to create an integrated and sealed reality, to snap tight around the world and its image. If the first is indestructible and the second is irresistible, who can win and what will victory look like? The answer may lie in the capacity for violence in the world-system itself, threatening that system from within with the purest of symbolic forms, the challenge of resistance. The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact is the summation of Baudrillard's work over twenty years. It is the essential analysis of the fundamental conflict of our time. About the editors Jean Baudrillard is one of the most influential philosophical and cultural critics writing today. His books include Simulacra and Simulation, The Perfect Crime, America, Seduction, The System of Objects, Cool Memories, Symbolic Exchange and Death and the Transparency of Evil. Translated by Chris Turner. Chris Turner has translated many of the key works of French theory over the last two decades, particularly the work of Baudrillard, including most recently, The Spirit of Terrorism. Contents Integral Reality * At the Margins of the Real * The World in its Deep Illusoriness * The Easiest Solutions--Do you want to be free?--Do you want to be anyone else? * The Murder of the Sign * The Mental Diaspora of the Networks * We are All Agnostics * The Violence Done to the Image * Contemporary Art Contemporary with Itself * Virtuality and Events * Evil and Misfortune * The Intelligence of Evil * For Whom does the Bell of Politics Toll? * The Destruction of the Golden Pavilion * Duality's Revenge * Fracture Lines * Parallel Universes--Existential Divide--Time Divide * Anamnesis.

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