In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ricardo Duchesne
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Nothing absurd about Baudrillard's analysis of the Gulf war.
Wouldn't Baudrillard be disappointed with the judgement that his work
was not absurd?
> The war
>was hardly "real" in that we merely experienced it through a
>series of entangled simulated images
Mediated is not the same as unreal. 180 000 Iraqis were killed in the
initial raids. Tens of thousands more have died since as a result of the
embargo on Iraqi oil, and the shortages of medicine and foodstuffs.
>...Callinicos is not to be
>trusted on Baudrillard, or any postmodernist; he has yet to outgrow
>the infantilism of international revolution.
Does postmodernism aim at maturity? I don't think so. Is it maturity to
make peace with the United Nations continuing war against the Iraqi
people, or to pretend that it is all spectacle?
Fraternally
--
James Heartfield
