{"product_id":"the-intelligence-of-evil-or-the-lucidity-pact","title":"The Intelligence of Evil or, The Lucidity Pact","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJean Baudrillard\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback, 176 pages\u003cbr\u003e9781780935683\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the wake of the 9\/11 attacks, after the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and at the height of the \"War on Terror\", the controversial postmodernist thinker Jean Baudrillard wrote The Intelligence of Evil. In tackling the rhetoric of the so-called \"clash of civilizations\" between a capitalist West and a fundamentalist religious Islam, the book also provides a summation of many of the most important themes of Baurdrillard's philosophical project.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBaudrillard here explores how neoliberal political rhetoric has divided human cultures are divided into two antagonistic forces, one based on symbolic exchange, which is dual and reciprocal, and one based on money and sign exchange, which is totalising. Non-western societies can create genuinely symbolic, durable cultures. But the western world-system, based on a logic of empire, is designed to create an integrated and sealed reality, to snap tight around the world and its image. If the first is indestructible and the second is irresistible, who can win and what will victory look like?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003eIntegral Reality\u003cbr\u003eAt the Margins of the Real\u003cbr\u003eThe World in its Deep Illusoriness\u003cbr\u003eThe Easiest Solutions--Do you want to be free? Do you want to be anyone else?\u003cbr\u003eThe Murder of the Sign\u003cbr\u003eThe Mental Diaspora of the Networks\u003cbr\u003eWe are All Agnostics\u003cbr\u003eThe Violence Done to the Image\u003cbr\u003eContemporary Art Contemporary with Itself\u003cbr\u003eVirtuality and Events\u003cbr\u003eEvil and Misfortune\u003cbr\u003eThe Intelligence of Evil\u003cbr\u003eFor Whom does the Bell of Politics Toll?\u003cbr\u003eThe Destruction of the Golden Pavilion\u003cbr\u003eDuality's Revenge\u003cbr\u003eFracture Lines\u003cbr\u003eParallel Universes Existential Divide Time Divide\u003cbr\u003eAnamnesis\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40617023012899,"sku":"9781780935683","price":39.9,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2514\/8624\/files\/DSC_9537.jpg?v=1730108973","url":"https:\/\/wardahbooks.mom\/products\/the-intelligence-of-evil-or-the-lucidity-pact","provider":"Wardah Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}