by Jean Baudrillard · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433900746
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"Fatal Strategies", which could be subtitled Confessions of an intellectual at the end of the century, is one of Jean Baudrillard's most insightful books. In this book, Baudrillard returns to his analysis of society in terms of simulacra: all social reality has today reached its point of 'ecstasy', a vanishing point where things, deprived of their purpose and reference, 'overact', so to speak, until they become empty forms, pure fascinating objects.
Baudrillard proposes a 'bet': since the position of the subject producing meaning is now impossible to maintain, why not accept the pleasure of the mute seduction of the object, its irony and its fatality? That is: appearance against so-called depth, play and the rule against the law, destiny and fatality against history and necessity, Evil, its irony and its immorality, against Good and the principle of the real.
Jean Baudrillard was a French sociologist and philosopher with an interest in cultural studies. He is best known for his analyses of media, contemporary culture, and technological communication, as well as his formulation of concepts such as hyperreality. Baudrillard wrote about diverse subjects, including consumerism, critique of economy, social history, aesthetics, Western foreign policy, and popular culture. Among his best-known works are Forget Foucault (1977), Seduction (1978), Simulacra and Simulation (1981), America (1986), and The Gulf War Did Not Take Place (1991). His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and specifically post-structuralism. Nevertheless, Baudrillard had also opposed post-structuralism, and had distanced himself from postmodernism.
