Special Issue: Baudrillard and Politics
We are now in the transpolitical sphere; in other words, we have reached the zero-point of politics, a stage which also implies the reproduction of politics, its endless simulation. For everything that has not successfully transcended itself can only fall prey to revivals without end. So politics will never finish disappearing — nor will it allow anything else to emerge in its place. A kind of hysteresis of the political reigns (Baudrillard, The Transparency of Evil. New York: Verso, [1990] 1993:11).
Editorial
Jon Baldwin. Exacerbation, Singularity, Indifference: Baudrillard and Politics
Articles
Ross Abbinnett. Machiavelli’s Double: Power, Simulation, and Hyper-Sovereignty
Jon Baldwin. Potlatch Politics — Baudrillard’s Gift
Ingrid M. Hoofd. Feminist Aspirations Degree Zero: A Seductive Encounter with/for Jean Baudrillard
Peter Hulm. Occupy everyone: Baudrillard and the Tea Party
Bradley Kaye. Dreams, Madness, and Hallucinating History with Jean Baudrillard
James Lawler. The King Must Die: Pataphysical Exegesis of an American Presidency
Jason Royce Lindsey. Baudrillard’s Simulated Polics and Debord’s Agents of Detournement
Shawn Malley. Archaeology as Weapon of Mass Destruction
Ole Jacob Madsen. Baudrillard and Videocracy: The Virtual Absence of the Political
Benjamin Noys. Forget Neoliberalism? Baudrillard, Foucault, and the Fate of Political Critique
Georgios Papadopoulos. Jean Baudrillard and the Lacanian Left
Francesco Proto. Berlusconi and Other Hostages: Politics and Simulation
William Purcell. The Pleasures of Domination: The G20 and Pittsburg, 2009
Agnieszka Zietek. Baudrillard and Politics – from the Breakthrough of 1989 to September 11, 2001