When Fatal Strategies was first published in French in 1983, it
represented a turning point for Jean Baudrillard: an utterly
original, and for many readers, utterly bizarre book that offered a
theory as proliferative, ecstatic, and hallucinatory as the
postmodern world it endeavored to describe. Arguing against the
predetermined outcomes of dialectical thought with his renowned,
wry, ambivalent passion, with this volume Jean Baudrillard mounted
an attack against the "false problems" posed by Western philosophy.
If his Marxist days were firmly behind him, Baudrillard here
indicated that metaphysics had also gone the way of sociology and
politics: the contemporary world demanded nothing less than
Pataphysics, Alfred Jarry's absurdist philosphy that described the
laws of the universe supplementary to this one. In effect, with
Fatal Strategies, Baudrillard became Baudrillard. In his
extrapolationist manner, Baudrillard sought to replace Western
philosophy's circular arguments with a ritualistic Theater of
Cruelty. Using this line of thought developed in Fatal Strategies,
Baudrillard went on, throughout the 1980s, to find new and
shatteringly accurate ways of discussing American corporatocracy,
arms build-up, and hostage taking. Fatal Strategies asserts a
profound critique of American politics, and it is an important step
towards his examination of evil.Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) was a
philosopher, sociologist, cultural critic, and theorist of
postmodernity who challenged all existing theories of contemporary
society with humor and precision. An outsider in the French
intellectual establishment, he was internationally renowned as a
twenty-first century visionary, reporter, and provocateur. His
Simulations (1983) instantly became a cult classic and made him a
controversial voice in the world of politics and art.
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