“We are all hostages of media intoxication, induced to believe in the war…, and confined to the simulacrum of war as though confined to quarters. We are already all strategic hostages in situ (Latin-in its original place); our site is the screen on which we are virtually bombarded day by day.”
This description by Jean Baudrillard, famous philosopher and culturologist, of real war and its images spreading around, until recently could have been presumed as a classic formula for public perception of “not here, but now.” Meanwhile times of hot and real wars fell back recently, when different societies in different …read more
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