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The Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme Phenomena
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In this, his most important collection of essays since Le systeme des objets, Jean Baudrillard contemplates Western culture after the orgy -- the orgy, that is, of the revolutions of the 1960s. The sexual revolution has led, he argues, not to sexual liberation but to a reign of transvestism, to a confusion of the categories of man and woman -- to the androgenous and Frankenstein appeal of a Michael Jackson. The revolution in art has led to a transaesthetic realm of indifference. The cybernetic revolution has blurred the distinction between man and machine, while the political revolution has led to a 'transpolitics' that merely simulates old political forms. Such are the points of Baudrillard's compass as he steers his way through the mental landscape of this febrile fin de siecle.
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- Authors
- Baudrillard, J., & Benedict, J.
- Venue
- The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1994
- Volume
- 52
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 487
- ISSN
- 0021-8529 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1793159117
- Cited by
- 554
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 108.49
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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