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Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme Phenomena Jean Baudrillard
Publisher: Verso Books

Oct 21, 2012 - This essay outlines an interpretation of Baudrillard's ideas on hyperreality and then considers them in the context of an internet-based virtual world, Second Life. Jun 21, 2011 - While I'm rather loathe to drop his name here I suppose at this point I should: it's Jean Baudrillard's “The Transparency of Evil”. The Transparency of Evil, Jean Baudrillard (tr. Jan 30, 2014 - The Transparency of Evil – Essays on Extreme Phenomena. In fact, in his final days in the Berlin bunker the only composer whose music was played was that of Franz Lehár's. In my opinion, junkies and psychopaths seem to be a matter of environment and only in a smaller percentage of cases do those environmental factors actually affect extreme genetic circumstances. Coincidently I've just been asked to blurb an anthology of essays on the mad old genius. This investigation Simulation is the process whereby the lines between original and replication become blurred or, as Baudrillard put it, the truth/falsity differential is weakened, and the simulacrum is the phenomenon it ultimately produces. Feb 16, 2012 - Such is the "banality of evil". In his book Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics, Frederich Spotts says on p263 that: after the German army's disaster at Stalingrad, It is without doubt one of the most illuminating essays on Wagner's later political thinking for the period following the 1848–49 Revolution ever published. Apr 30, 2014 - What I like best about the new book edited by Tom Gilson of Thinking Christian and by Carson Weitnauer is the robust spirit on display from the fifteen authors who contributed essays. David Bentley Hart says, “For existence is definitely not a natural phenomenon; it is logically prior to any physical cause whatsoever; and anyone who imagines that it is susceptible of a natural explanation simply has no grasp of what the question of existence really is. If you don't know what I'm talking about, then pick up any newspaper or magazine.