Reversion of History >>
Jean Baudrillard
Baudrillard addresses the concept of history itself. In this time of historical
revisions (no longer leaving it to those who win the wars to write the
history books), the concept of recording history and creating
retrospectives is called into question. If history can be fluidly rewritten,
does it really exist as any kind of static documentation at all anymore? It
becomes reinterpretation of a recollection through the filter of an ever
moving present and so undermines its Îmeta-authorityâ by its own nature.
Historical representation becomes an empty signifier with nothing behind
it; it is a simulacrum
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[Intro] [from the site:] ãThis is the end of linearity. Viewed from this perspective,
the future no longer exists. And if there is no future, neither is there an end
anymore. And yet this is not what is meant by the end of history. What we
have to deal with is a paradoxical process of reversion, a reversal of effect
with respect to modernity which, having reached its speculative limit and
extrapolated all its virtual developments, disintegrates into its rudimentary
components through a catastrophic process of recurrence and
turbulence. ã
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