Duch terroryzmu. Requiem dla Twin Towers

by Jean Baudrillard, Renata Lis (Translator)

Czym 11 wrzesnia roznil sie od smierci ksieznej Diany Mundialu czy wojny w Zatoce W odroznieniu od tych pseudowydarzen 11 wrzesnia byl pierwszym od bardzo dawna wydarzeniem symbolicznym na skale globalna wydarzeniem ktorego sprawcy rzucili globalizacji prawdziwe wyzwanie Co wiecej w wydarzeniu tym uwaza autor i to jest jego glowna teza wszyscy mielismy swoj bezwiedny udzial Czy nie marzylismy skrycie o upadku globalnej potegi symbolizowanej przez World Trade Center Czy w ogole mozna nie marzyc o upadku potegi ktora osiaga taki stopien hegemonii Czy na walace sie Twin Towers nie patrzylismy z przerazeniem fascynacja iS dziwna ulga ze nareszcie cos wydarzylo sie naprawde W esejach zebranych w ksiazce Duch terroryzmu Requiem dla Twin Towers autor wzywa do odrzucenia wszystkich naroslych wokol 11 wrzesnia moralnych interpretacji jedna z nich jest wojna z terroryzmem i powrotu do fascynacji obrazem walacych sie wiez To w niej kryje sie podstawowa dla naszej kondycji tesknota za prawdziwym niewirtualnym swiatem w ktorym jest miejsce nie tylko na Dobro ale i na Zlo nie tylko na zycie ale i na smierc a przede wszystkim na walke na smierc i zycie

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Published January 1, 2005

About the author

Jean Baudrillard was a French sociologist, philosopher and poet, with interest in cultural studies. He is best known for his analyses of media, contemporary culture, and technological communication, as well as his formulation of concepts such as hyperreality. Baudrillard wrote about diverse subjects, including consumerism, critique of economy, social history, aesthetics, Western foreign policy, and popular culture. Among his most well-known works are Seduction (1978), Simulacra and Simulation (1981), America (1986), and The Gulf War Did Not Take Place (1991). His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and specifically post-structuralism. Nevertheless, Baudrillard had also opposed post-structuralism, and had distanced himself from postmodernism.

Reviews

[aba · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have intensively considered the subject of freedom and national identity in the last years due to the Russo-Ukrainian war. I'm struggling to understand the source of that phenomenon in society, especially in Ukrainians' minds. Most of the world, which values democracy and free will, currently identifies Russia as a terrorist state. Therefore I was getting familiar with "Spirit of Terrorism" by Baudrillard for searching answers to my dilemmas.

Gendalf, a high-ranking military from the "Azov" regiment, considers freedom a restriction, or rather, discipline is a restriction that eventually allows you to make a conscious choice.
On the other hand, here's Baudrillard's reflection on that subject from the viewer spectrum. "The question of freedom, one's own it or that of others, no longer poses itself in terms of moral consciousness, and higher freedom must allow us to dispose of it to the point of abusing or sacrificing it. Rather one freeman bind with chains of love than a set of thousand prisoned captives free."
The author also refers to Lichtenberg, that tells us the proper use of freedom is to abuse it and use it excessively.

All sides would agree that freedom is about making conscious choices, but how to achieve this remains a matter of debate.

In essence, the author reflects on the event of September 11 and the subject of terrorism, the absence of mutual exclusion of Good and Evil, irreversibility of the occurrence of something like terrorism in the world that tends to build one extensive communication system through or in consequence of globalization.

[Daniel Block · Rating 4 out of 5]

Definitely provides an interesting theoretical take on terrorism and the State. Definitely untimely written and insensitive.