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Jean Baudrillard, "The Violence of the Global"

"The Violence of the Global" [1]

Jean Baudrillard (Translated by Francois Debrix)

Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of
anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary
partner of globalization. To identify its main features, it is
necessary to perform a brief genealogy of globalization, particularly
of its relationship to the singular and the universal.


Full essay is at ctheory