In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities [Audiobook] download free by Jean Baudrillard
- Listen audiobook: In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities
- Author: Jean Baudrillard
- Release date: 2007/7/12
- Publisher: AUTONOMEDIA
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9781584350385
- Rating: 8.25 of 10
- Votes: 623
- Review by: Desiree Jeffery
- Review rating: 8.28 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/1
- Duration: 1H40M16S in 256 kbps (27.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-02
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, WAV, WMA, MPEG4, TTA, WavPack, AC3, FLAC (compression RAR, LHA, AZW3, GZ, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 136
- Includes a PDF summary of 13 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 10M26S (2.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Baudrillard's remarkably prescient meditation on terrorism throws light on post-9/11 delusional fears and political simulations.Published one year after Forget Foucault, In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities (1978) may be the most important sociopolitical manifesto of the twentieth century: it calls for nothing less than the end of both sociology and politics. Disenfranchised revolutionaries (the Red Brigades, the Baader-Meinhof Gang) hoped to reach the masses directly through spectacular actions, but their message merely played into the hands of the media and the state. In a media society meaning has no meaning anymore; communication merely communicates itself. Jean Baudrillard uses this last outburst of ideological terrorism in Europe to showcase the end of the 'Social.' Once invoked by Marx as the motor of history, the masses no longer have sociological reality. In the electronic media society, all the masses can do-and all they will do-is enjoy the spectacle. In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities takes to its ultimate conclusion the 'end of ideologies' experienced in Europe after the Soviet invasion of Hungary and the death of revolutionary illusions after May 1968. Ideological terrorism doesn't represent anything anymore, writes Baudrillard, not even itself. It is just the last hysterical reaction to discredited political illusions.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Social & Political Philosophy, Media Studies, Terrorism, Armed Struggle, Society & Culture: General, Social Theory, Literary Essays
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 15.44 USD
- Dimensions: 152x229x10mm
- Weight: 227g
- Printed by: Semiotext (E)
- Published in: New York, United States
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