![]() ![]() Adopting this perspective does not require us to deny the existence of reality or to remain indifferent to its impact. Passwords does not seek a definitive conclusion, because for Baudrillard thinking is only radical so long as it does not try to prove itself or to verify itself in some reality or other. ![]() For a generation also seeking to understand a transnational order of resistance to multinational corporate globalization, Baudrillard's passwords take us deep inside the system of production and consumption to its most powerful (and vulnerable) features.īaudrillard describes words as "passers or vehicles of ideas" and the book gives us fifteen of these "passwords" from his oeuvre: object, value, symbolic exchange, seduction, obscene, transparency of evil, virtual, randomness, chaos, end, perfect crime, destiny, impossible exchange, duality, and thought. New York: Verso, 2003, 92 p.ĭuring a conversation we had in Paris in April 2003, Baudrillard said about his life's work (more than thirty books since 1968): "It would be nice to clarify a few things." Passwords does just that and this makes it an excellent book for undergraduates grappling with Baudrillard's thought and contemporary society. ![]()
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