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The Conspiracy of Art: Manifestos, Interviews, Essays
- Author: Baudrillard, Jean
- Publisher: Semiotext(e)
- Binding: Paperback
- Copyright: 2005
- ISBN-13: 9781584350286
- ISBN-10: 1584350288
The images from Abu Ghraib are as murderous for America as those of theWorld Trade Center in flames. The whole West is contained in the burst of sadisticlaughter of the American soldiers, as it is behind the construction of the Israeliwall. This is where the truth of these images lies. Truth, but not veracity. Asvirtual as the war itself, their specific violence adds to the specific violence ofthe war.In The Conspiracy of Art, Baudrillard questions the privilege attached toart by its practitioners. Art has lost all desire for illusion: feeding backendlessly into itself, it has turned its own vanishment into an art unto itself. Farfrom lamenting the "end of art," Baudrillard celebrates art's new function withinthe process of insider-trading. Spiraling from aesthetic nullity to commercialfrenzy, art has become transaesthetic, like society as a whole.Conceived and editedby life-long Baudrillard collaborator Sylv?re Lotringer, The Conspiracy of Artpresents Baudrillard's writings on art in a complicitous dance with politics, economics, and media. Culminating with "War Porn," a scathing analysis of thespectacular images from Abu Ghraib prison as a new genre of reality TV, the bookfolds back on itself to question the very nature of radical thought.
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The images from Abu Ghraib are as murderous for America as those of theWorld Trade Center in flames. The whole West is contained in the burst of sadisticlaughter of the American soldiers, as it is behind the construction of the Israeliwall. This is where the truth of these images lies. Truth, but not veracity. Asvirtual as the war itself, their specific violence adds to the specific violence ofthe war.In The Conspiracy of Art, Baudrillard questions the privilege attached toart by its practitioners. Art has lost all desire for illusion: feeding backendlessly into itself, it has turned its own vanishment into an art unto itself. Farfrom lamenting the "end of art," Baudrillard celebrates art's new function withinthe process of insider-trading. Spiraling from aesthetic nullity to commercialfrenzy, art has become transaesthetic, like society as a whole.Conceived and editedby life-long Baudrillard collaborator Sylv?re Lotringer, The Conspiracy of Artpresents Baudrillard's writings on art in a complicitous dance with politics, economics, and media. Culminating with "War Porn," a scathing analysis of thespectacular images from Abu Ghraib prison as a new genre of reality TV, the bookfolds back on itself to question the very nature of radical thought.
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