[lbo-talk] Baudrillard: The Violence Of The Global

[Dwayne Monroe]

Baudrillard has not hired me as his publicist (I
wonder how lucrative a job that would be?) so I won't
defend his ideas at length.

Nevertheless, I believe that the core assertion of the
essay (making allowances for the fact it's a
translation): that modern forms of trans-national
terrorism are, contrary to the assumption of many, a
part of and not outside of the system of globalization
is not without merit.

Is he an idiot, as Joanna says?  I don't know.  

Is he the George Gilder of post modern academics? 

Whatever flaws may exist in Baudrillard's work, I
don't believe that he compares accurately to Mr.
Gilder who, after visiting one fiber optic firm in the
mid nineties, wrote a breathless prediction of a fiber
optic nirvana.

I don't know enough about the Merovingian reference to
comment.

D.

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