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  In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities (Semiotext(e) Foreign Agents) (Paperback) By (author) Jean Baudrillard, Introduction by Hedi El Kholti, Introduction by Chris Kraus, Introduction by Sylvere Lotringer, Translated by Paul Foss, Translated by John Johnston, Translated by Paul Patton, Translated by Stuart Kendall

  

  

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  Short Description for In the Shadow of the Silent MajoritiesBaudrillard's remarkably prescient meditation on terrorism throws light on post-9/11 delusional fears and political simulations.
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  • Publisher: Semiotext (E)
  • Published: 03 August 2007
  • Format: Paperback 136 pages
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  • Categories: Literary Essays | Society & Culture: General | Media Studies | Social Theory | Terrorism, Armed Struggle | Social & Political Philosophy
  • ISBN 13: 9781584350385 ISBN 10: 1584350385
  • Sales rank: 190,476

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• 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.