Cutting-edge theorist Jean Baudrillard on the complicitous dance of
art, politics, economics, and media; includes "War Porn," on Abu
Ghraib as a new genre of reality TV. The images from Abu Ghraib are
as murderous for America as those of the World Trade Center in
flames. The whole West is contained in the burst of sadistic
laughter of the American soldiers, as it is behind the construction
of the Israeli wall. This is where the truth of these images lies.
Truth, but not veracity. As virtual as the war itself, their
specific violence adds to the specific violence of the war. In The
Conspiracy of Art, Baudrillard questions the privilege attached to
art by its practitioners. Art has lost all desire for illusion:
feeding back endlessly into itself, it has turned its own
vanishment into an art unto itself. Far from lamenting the "end of
art," Baudrillard celebrates art's new function within the process
of insider-trading. Spiraling from aesthetic nullity to commercial
frenzy, art has become transaesthetic, like society as a whole.
Conceived and edited by life-long Baudrillard collaborator Sylvere
Lotringer, The Conspiracy of Art presents Baudrillard's writings on
art in a complicitous dance with politics, economics, and media.
Culminating with "War Porn," a scathing analysis of the spectacular
images from Abu Ghraib prison as a new genre of reality TV, the
book folds back on itself to question the very nature of radical
thought.
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