Jean Baudrillard Quotes About Terrorism

Quotes about: Terrorism

• Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Nihilism, Today, Terrorism

  "The spirit of terrorism" by Jean Baudrillard, ("The Violence of the Global"), 2003.

• This is what terrorism is occupied with as well: making real, palpable violence surface in opposition to the invisible violence of security.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Real, Violence, Terrorism

  Jean Baudrillard (1994). “Simulacra and Simulation”, p.57, University of Michigan Press

• Terrorism, like viruses, is everywhere. There is a global perfusion of terrorism, which accompanies any system of domination as though it were its shadow, ready to activate itself anywhere, like a double agent.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Shadow, Viruses, Agents

  Jean Baudrillard (2003). “The Spirit of Terrorism and Other Essays”, p.10, Verso

• Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary. He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Destiny, Arbitrary, Alive

• We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and the dominated, the exploiters and the exploited. It is worse than the one it replaces, but at least it liberates us from liberal nostalgia and the ruses of history.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Nostalgia, Terrorism, Slave

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