The Intelligence of Evil: or, The Lucidity Pact (Bloomsbury Revelations) by Jean Baudrillard

Author:Jean Baudrillard [Baudrillard, Jean]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2013-05-07T16:00:00+00:00

There is no self-portrait.

It is the world which, through the image, produces its own self-portrait and we are allowed there only out of kindness (but the pleasure is shared).

Conversely, every image should be looked at with the same intensity as our images in the mirror.

Photography is always also the veiled message from death in the Samarkand story.4

The summoning to a failed meeting with reality . . . out of preference, perhaps, for this other world.

Do we not prefer any old parallel universe to the real one?

Any old double life to the one given to us?

There is no finer parallel universe than that of the detail or the fragment.

Freed from the whole and its transcendent ventriloquism, the detail inevitably becomes mysterious.

Every particle wrested from the natural world is in itself an immediate subversion of the real and its wholeness.

Like the fragment, it has only to be elliptical.

It has only to be an exception.

Every singular image can be reckoned exceptional.

And it puts an end to all the others.

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