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Baudrillard's Lucidity Pact

Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, UK

Of Jean Baudrillard’s four orders of simulacra: the natural, the commodity, the code, and the fractal the first three have been widely acknowledged, especially the importance of the theory of the third order for his analysis of the Gulf War. But the fourth order has not been accorded similar recognition and his works around this idea are not as widely known. It is clear that his essays on 9/11 drew substantially on ideas rounding out the theory of the fourth order. This article examines the emergence of the radical theory of evil of the later Baudrillard.

Key Words: fetishism • reality • singularity • symbolic exchange • terrorism

Theory, Culture & Society, Vol. 24, No. 5, 127-133 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0263276407081286


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