Epilogue: Baudrillard's War

On the subject of war Baudrillard could be quite enlightening and he could be quite humorous. Of one after effect of the Vietnam War he said, referring to the film Apocalypse Now. 'The American's lost the war but they won the movie'(Baudrillard ([1981] 1994:60). In this paper I discus...

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Published in:International journal of Baudrillard studies 2014-05, Vol.11 (2)
Main Author: Coulter, Gerry
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Apocalypse
Baudrillard, Jean
Vietnam War
War
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Summary:On the subject of war Baudrillard could be quite enlightening and he could be quite humorous. Of one after effect of the Vietnam War he said, referring to the film Apocalypse Now. 'The American's lost the war but they won the movie'(Baudrillard ([1981] 1994:60). In this paper I discuss various of Baudrillard's thoughts on war leading us to the war that he, as a theorist and writer, was engaged in for most of his adult life - his war against cultural homogenization and what he referred to as 'the hell of the same' ([1990] 1993:122). Adapted from the source document.
ISSN:1705-6411
1705-6411