File spoon-archives/baudrillard.archive/baudrillard_1999/baudrillard.9908, message 43


From: "Joseph Tanke" <josephtanke-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: gulf war
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:50:13 EDT


I have not yet read the third instalment, is that where you think he 
backtracks?

"It is a masquerade of information: branded faces delivered over to the 
prostitution of the image.."

"Information is like an unintelligent missile which never finds its target 
(nor, unfortunately, its anti-missile!), and therefore crashes anywhere or 
gets lost in space on an unpredictable orbit in which it eternally revolves 
as junk."

Also, B's point about the production of decoys, placebos, and forgery as a 
sign that the culture has become a "deceptive world" which "labours 
assiduously at its counterfeit."  I am reminded about your earlier point 
about the Blair Witch Project.  A movie that is made to counterfeit life.

>From: CathB2-AT-aol.com
>Reply-To: baudrillard-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>To: baudrillard-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>Subject: Re: gulf war
>Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 20:55:28 EDT
>
>Seems to me B really believed it would be a big  bluster, then backtracked
>when he didn't quite prognosticate.
>
>But his image of the suicide that got boring--that's a good description of
>the Gulf War in History.  At the time, though, it was just so Texas: Never
>fear Top Gun is here to save that raggeldy  Viet Nam vet.  Colin Powell,
>politically corrected John Wayne; GI Jane helping groveling POWs to their
>feet--she would never, ever hurt them.  Yippytiyiyo!  How I quit worrying 
>and
>learned to love the bomb!
>
>B's description of the absolute nullity of the outcome is pretty good, too;
>Sadam, agent of the CIA, waves goodbye from his bunker. Most of the people
>involved turn off the TV, throw away what's left of the popcorn, yawn, and
>turn in for the night.


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