Fatal Strategies

"Fatal Strategies was first published in France in 1983, two years after Baudrillard's Simulations, with its descriptions of a world in which original and copy, real and false have become indistinguishable. Fatal Strategies takes us one step further with a paradoxical question: if plans of action have become ineffective, can the hyperreal world we live in be challenged by another kind of logic that would come with the inevitability of fate?" "Outwardly geared to progress and production, ruled by linearity, cause and effect, and accumulation, contemporary societies remain unaware that they have already outgrown their raison d'etre and finalities. In Fatal Strategies, Baudrillard is looking for a rule immanent to the system, a fatal game (more final than final) capable of dismantling, challenging, and reversing the world of simulation. Bypassing subjectivity in favor of an "objective irony," Baudrillard is here reinventing theory as narration, a playful, provocative proposition, and all the more implacable for that."--BOOK JACKET.Baudrillard, Jean is the author of 'Fatal Strategies' with ISBN 9781584350613 and ISBN 158435061X.