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Terrorism of the Spirit

In the name of the principle of equivalence that currently seems to stimulate his thought, Jean Baudrillard actually practices the terrorism of the spirit precisely when he thinks he is going to capture the spirit of terrorism. It appears to be a great spirit, but it is less an excuse than an aggravating circumstance. A different analysis could have been expected from the master of variations about the duality between the real and the virtual, image and substance, media and reality. In his eyes, the collapse of the Twin Towers could have signaled the final triumph of the virtual, the...