sâmbătă, 19 aprilie 2014

Jean Baudrillard, Carnival and Cannibal/ Ventriloquous Evil

The form of new antagonism entails the reawakening of the death at the heart of power (the way Warhol wanted to get to the nothingness at the heart of the image), and this can be done only through events that are more subtle than frontal insurrection or the deterrence of human rights - by parodic events, by all the symbolic forms of deterrence and dissuasion - and hence by the various forms of terror. In this sense, Zidane's [head heat] was a terrorist act.
Carnival and Cannibal