Baudrillard on movements

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Thu Feb 8 12:27:23 PST 2001


On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Doug Henwood wrote:


> Baudrillard in a footnote to his 'Implosion of Meaning in the Media'
> (1983) writes:
>
> "Distrust the universalisation of struggles through information.
> Distrust campaigns of solidarity that is both electronic and
> worldwide. Every strategy of the universlaisation of differences is an
> entropic strategy of the system."

Too be fair to Baudrilliard, the electronic campaigns of solidarity on offer in 1983 were not internet-activism, but Save a Child commercials.

Michael

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