The Agony of Power

The Agony of Power by Jean Baudrillard (Paperback) (ISBN: 9781584350927)

Baudrillard's unsettling coda: previously unpublished texts written just before the visionary theorist's death in 2007.

In the system of hegemony, the alienated, the oppressed, and the colonized find themselves on the side of the system that holds them hostage. In this paradoxical moment in which history has turned to farce, domination itself may appear to have been a lesser evil. This book gathers together two essays--"The Agony of Power" and "From Domination to Hegemony"--and a related interview with Baudrillard from 2005, "The Roots of Evil." Semiotext(e) launched Baudrillard into English back in the early 1980s; now, as our media and information infested "ultra-reality" finally catches up with his theory, Semiotext(e) offers The Agony of Power, Baudrillard's unsettling coda. Intervention Series Distributed for Semiotext(e)