IJBS - Vol5-2

Table of Contents Volume 6, Number 1 (January 2009)

It is said that without the media there would be no terrorism. And it is true that terrorism does not exist in itself as an original political act: it is the hostage of the media, just as they are hostage to it. There is no end to this chain of blackmail – everyone is the hostage of the other: this is the end of our so-called ‘social’ relation. Besides, there is another factor behind all of this, which is something like the womb of this circular blackmail: the masses, without which there would be neither media nor terrorism (Baudrillard, Fatal Strategies New York: Semiotext(e), 1993:43-44).

Reply to Zizek

Peter Singer and Paola Cavalieri. On Zizek and Animals

America ... Twenty Years On

Alan Shapiro. Re-Discovering the Baudreality of America

Gerry Coulter. America: The Future Form Of Our Collective Catastrophe

Articles

Thorsten Botz-Bornstein. If Barbey d’Aurevilly had Known About Virtual Reality: Dandyism Revisited

Caroline Heinrich. In Search of The Child’s Innocence

Paul O. Mahoney. Revisiting Symbolic Exchange: Baudrillard’s Aristocratic Critique

Allen Mendenhall. Moundsville Penitentiary, Model and Symptom of Hyperreality

Michael Rennett. Baudrillard and The Joe Schmo Show

Aurel Schmidt. Only Impossible Exchange Is Possible