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summary: =The Perfect Crime by Jean Baudrillard= Baudrillard proposes to evaluate (belabor?) the death of the world in this book. Exploring the effects of . . .
Baudrillard proposes to evaluate (belabor?) the death of the world in this book. Exploring the effects of technology on the world, he continues themes of simulation from other volumes but draws out more of his own materialist philosophical system.
For Baudrillard, the world is illusion, a trickster that is actively trying to confuse us. Additionally, this illusory nature retains the hope of possibility. Modernity, in turn, represents the real (which is opposed to the world) and is tied up with discourses of truth and mastery. Simulation, then, is the strategy by which post-Enlightenment technology seeks to murder the world and leave no trace, the perfect crime.
There is more detail in this discussion, but, largely, he repeats himself quite a bit.
The second part of the book (“The Other Side of the Crime”) is a regrettable account of otherness.
Ultimately, Baudrillard concludes that a new kind of thought, radical thought, must emerge to increase the disorder of the world and make the world more, and not less, inscrutable. He opposes this radical thought to the critical mode of Marxist analysis and, of course, heightens the importance of language in this concern.