Simulations
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Simulations never existed as a book before it was “translated” into English. Actually it came from two different books written at different times by Jean Baudrillard. The first part of Simulations , and most provocative because it made a fiction of theory, was “The Procession of Simulacra.” It had first been published in Simulacre et Simulations (1981). The second part written much earlier and in a more academic mode, came from L’Echange Symbolique et la Mort (1977). It was a half-earnest, half-parodical attempt to “historicize” his own conceit by providing it with some kind of genealogy of the three orders of appearance: the Counterfeit attached to the classical period; Production for the industrial era; and Simulation, controlled by the code. It was Baudrillard’s version of Foucault’s Order of Things and his ironical commentary of the history of truth. The book opens on a quote from Ecclesiastes asserting flatly that “the simulacrum is true.” It was certainly true in Baudrillard’s book,...
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Still Black Still Strong is an essential document of the Black Panther Party written by three leading thinkers and party activists who were jailed following the FBI’S 1969 mandate to destroy the organization “by any means possible.”
First published in 1993, Still Black, Still Strong is partly based upon the 1989 videotape Framing The Panthers by producers Chris Bratton and Annie Goldson. It recounts the stories of Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Mumia Abu-Jamal and Assata Shakur, all of whom were arrested and jailed during the COINTELPRO probe of the Black Panther Party.
Dhoruba Bin Wahad, who organized chapters of the Black Panther Party in New York and along the Estern Seaboard and worked with tenants in Harlem and on drug rehabilitation in the Bronx, was accused of murdering two officers while still in his teens and imprisoned for 19 years. He always maintained his innocence and won his freedom by forcing the FBI to release thousands classified documents proving that he had been framed....
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In this lengthy interview with Philippe Petit, Virilio articulates his ideas around technology, politics, accidents and warfare, developing an analysis of a technological culture in which accidents are no longer specific and local, but global and simultaneous.
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First published in 1966 at University of Strasbourg by students of the University and members of the Internationale Situationiste. This newly revised translation in the year 2000 by Lorraine Perlman follows previous English translations by Black & Red in 1973 and Ken Knabb in 1999. It follows the Champ Libre edition published in Paris in 1976.
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