The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact (Talking Images)

There are few philosophers today cool enough to be referenced in the Matrix , interesting enough to be mentioned on Six Feet Under , and popular enough to get over 606,000 hits on Google. Jean Baudrillard has succeeded in all of this and more. Now, in his latest book, Baudrillard presents his most popular themes—symbolic exchange, hyper-reality, technology and war—and applies them to the current global conflict between "the West and the Rest", including Islam. Ultimately, it is not simply about the war against terror but about the bigger picture of capitalism versus everything else. This book serves as the summation of Baudrillard's work over the last twenty years and is the essential analysis of the fundamental conflict of our time. Jean Baudrillard - The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact......Page 1 The Intelligence of Evil: An Introduction......Page 7 Integral Reality......Page 23 On the Fringes of the Real......Page 31 On the World in Its Profound Illusoriness......Page 45 The Easiest Solutions......Page 53 Do you want to be free?......Page 56 Do you want to be anyone else?......Page 61 The Murder of the Sign......Page 73 The Mental Diaspora of the Networks......Page 81 We Are All Agnostics.........Page 93 The Violence Done to the Image......Page 97 Contemporary Art: Art Contemporary with Itself......Page 111 Virtuality and Events......Page 123 Evil and Misfortune......Page 145 The Intelligence of Evil......Page 165 For Whom Does the Knell of Politics Toll?......Page 171 The Destruction of the Golden Temple......Page 179 The 'Blowback' of Duality......Page 191 Lines of Fracture......Page 197 Parallel Universes......Page 203 Existential Divide......Page 204 Time Divide......Page 206 Anamnesis......Page 213 The intelligence of evil : an introduction Christ Turner Integral reality On the fringes of the real On the world in its profound illusoriness The easiest solutions Do you want to be free? Do you want to be anyone else? The murder of the sign The mental diaspora of the networks We are all agnostics The violence done to the image Contemporary art : art contemporary with itself Virtuality and events Evil and misfortune The intelligence of evil For whom does the knell of politics toll? The destruction of the golden temple The 'blowback' of duality Lines of fracture Parallel universes Existential divide Time divide Anamnesis. 'The Intelligence of Evil, or, The Lucidity Pact' is the summation of Baudrillard's work over 20 years. It is the essential analysis of the fundamental conflict of our time