{"id":2860,"date":"2002-08-29T11:21:30","date_gmt":"2002-08-29T11:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=258"},"modified":"2002-08-29T11:21:30","modified_gmt":"2002-08-29T11:21:30","slug":"hmmm-i-need-to-read-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2860","title":{"rendered":"HMMM&#8230; I NEED TO READ THIS&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(from <a href=\"http:\/\/junius.blogspot.com\/2002_08_25_junius_archive.html#85392964\" taregt=\"browser\">Junius<\/a>): Jean Baudrillard&#8217;s new book: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/books\/ab\/b-titles\/baudrillard_spirit.shtml\">The Spirit of Terrorism<\/a>. A quote:<i>&#8220;In dealing all the cards to itself, the system forced the Other to change the rules of the game. And the new rules are ferocious, because the game is ferocious.&#8221;<\/i><br \/>\nAnd from the publisher&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/books\/ab\/b-titles\/baudrillard_spirit.shtml\" target=\"browser\">blurb<\/a>: <i>Continuing an analysis developed over many years, Baudrillard sees the power of the terrorists as lying in the symbolism of this slaughter. Not merely the reality of death, but a sacrificial death that challenges the whole system. Where the past revolutionary sought to conduct a struggle of real forces in the context of ideology and politics, the new terrorist mounts a powerful symbolic challenge, which, when combined with high-tech resources, constitutes an unprecedented assault on an over-sophisticated, vulnerable West.<\/i><br \/>\nI just ordered it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(from Junius): Jean Baudrillard&#8217;s new book: The Spirit of Terrorism. A quote:&#8220;In dealing all the cards to itself, the system forced the Other to change the rules of the game. And the new rules are ferocious, because the game is ferocious.&#8221; And from the publisher&#8217;s blurb: Continuing an analysis developed over many years, Baudrillard sees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}