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Impossible Exchange (Paperback)
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Impossible Exchange (Paperback)
Series: Radical Thinkers
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Loot Price R524
Discovery Miles 5 240
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Working his way through the various spheres and systems of everyday
life-the political, the juridical, the economical, the aesthetic,
the biological, among others-he finds that they are all
characterized by the same non-equivalence, and hence the same
eccentricity. Literally, they have no meaning outside themselves
and cannot be exchanged for anything. Politics is laden with signs
and meanings, but seen from the outside it has no meaning. Schemes
for genetic experimentation and investigation are becoming
infinitely ramified, and the more ramified they become the more the
crucial question is left unanswered: who rules over life? Who rules
over death? Baudrillard's conclusion is that the true formula of
contemporary nihilism lies here: the nihilism of value itself. This
is our fate, and from this stem both the happiest and the most
baleful consequences. This book might be said to be the
exploration, first, of the 'fateful' consequences, and
subsequently-by a poetic transference of situation-of the
fortunate, happy consequences of impossible exchange.
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