9/11
➳ "The Spirit of Terrorism" by Jean Baudrillard - http://bit.ly/2xUA26u ♡ Free delivery worldwide
Until September 11 we had had no symbolic event on a world scale that marked a setback for globalization itself.
Baudrillard sees the power of the terrorists as lying in the symbolism of slaughter – not merely the reality of death, but in a sacrifice that challenges the whole system. Where previously the old revolutionary sought to conduct a struggle between real forces in the context of ideology and politics, the new terrorist mounts a powerful symbolic challenge which, when combined with high-tech resources, constitutes an unprecedented assault on an over-sophisticated and vulnerable West. This new edition is updated with the essays “Hypotheses on Terrorism” and “Violence of the Global.”
➳ "Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates" by Slavoj Žižek - http://bit.ly/2xVo3FE ♡ Free delivery worldwide
Probing beneath the level of TV punditry, Žižek offers a highly original and readable account that serves as a fascinating and insightful comprehension of the events of September 11.
Liberals and conservatives proclaim the end of the American holiday from history. Now the easy games are over; one should take sides. Žižek argues this is precisely the temptation to be resisted. In such moments of apparently clear choices, the real alternatives are most hidden. Welcome to the Desert of the Real steps back, complicating the choices imposed on us. It proposes that global capitalism is fundamentalist and that America was complicit in the rise of Muslim fundamentalism. It points to our dreaming about the catastrophe in numerous disaster movies before it happened, and explores the irony that the tragedy has been used to legitimize torture. Last but not least it analyzes the fiasco of the predominant leftist response to the events.
➳ "Ground Zero" by Paul Virilio - http://bit.ly/2wRAzct ♡ Free delivery worldwide
This book seeks to comprehend the philosophical meaning of September 11 and will leave untouched none of the prevailing views currently propagated.
How would it be if what we take for human advance were simply a technological progress that literally leaves us out of its equations? What if progress is not humanity striking out bravely towards the future, but an ultimately destructive force? In a remarkable tour d'horizon, Paul Virilio paints a bleak picture of current scientific, cultural, social and political values. Art has succumbed to the techniques of advertising and in politics, the battle for hearts and minds has become a mere convergence of opinion. TV ratings have triumphed over universal suffrage. The events of September 11 reflect both the manipulation of a global sub-proletariat and the delusions of an elite of rich students and technicians who resemble the 'suicidal members of the Heaven's Gate cybersect'. And, in this post-humanist dystopia, we are morally rudderless before the threat of biological manipulations as yet undreamt.
About the series:
Appearing on the first anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, these series of books from Verso present analyses of the United States, the media, and the events surrounding September 11 by Europe's most stimulating and provocative philosophers. Probing beneath the level of TV commentary, political and cultural orthodoxies, and 'rent-a-quote' punditry, Baudrillard, Virilio, and Zizek offer three highly original and readable accounts that serve as fascinating introductions to the direction of their respective projects, and as insightful critiques of the unfolding events. This series seeks to comprehend the philosophical meaning of September 11 and will leave untouched none of the prevailing views currently propagated.
➳ "The Spirit of Terrorism" by Jean Baudrillard - http://bit.ly/2xUA26u ♡ Free delivery worldwide
➳ "Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates" by Slavoj Žižek - http://bit.ly/2xVo3FE ♡ Free delivery worldwide
➳ "Ground Zero" by Paul Virilio - http://bit.ly/2wRAzct ♡ Free delivery worldwide