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From: "Quentin" <1quentin-AT-gte.net>
Subject: Baudrillard and war
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 22:27:59 -0600


Baudrillard has written about our rejection of "individuation" (from _The
Vital Illusion_) and how we "repent of the emancipation of the individual
from the species" (again from TVI).  I am new to Baudrillard, and have not
yet read _The Gulf War Did Not Take Place_, so perhaps someone can fill me
in on how Baudrillard views war and how he explains its occurrence in a
species who (supposedly) wish only for reunion.  Am I reading too much into
it when I think Baudrillard views humanity as wishing for a collective, or
is there room for political division within his non-individualistic ideal?

On a side note, I would argue that it is exactly this loss of
"individuation" and the promotion of a collective which allows wars to take
place.

Quentin


   

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