Special Issue: Baudrillard and War
Guest Editor: Dr. Dan Oberg, Department of Military Science, Swedish Defense College, Stockholm, Sweden.
We are a long way from annihilation, holocaust and atomic apocalypse, the total war which functions as the archaic imagination of media hysteria. …Just as wealth is no longer measured by the ostentation of wealth but the secret circulation of speculative capital, so war is not measured by being waged but by it speculative unfolding in an abstract, electronic and informational space, the same space in which capital moves (Baudrillard, The Gulf War Did Not Take Place, 1995: 56).
Introduction
Dan Oberg. Baudrillard and War
Articles
Michal Klosinski. What is the “Place” of War?
Astrid Norden. Radical Exoticism: Baudrillard and Others’ Wars
William Pawlett. Society At War With Itself
Alan Shapiro. Jean Baudrillard and Albert Camus on the Simulacrum of Taking a Stance on War
Samuel Strehle. A Poetic Anthropology of War: Jean Baudrillard and the 1991 Gulf War.
Andreja Zevnik. War Porn: An Image of Perversion and Desire in Modern Warfare
Epilogue