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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Facism; The panicked nostalgia over the loss of power...

Facism; "The panicked nostalgia over the loss of power, The melancholy of societies without power"
 - Jean Baudrillard

파시즘; "권력을 잃어버림에 대한 무서운 향수... 권력없는 사회가 느끼는 우수..."

Power itself has for a long time produced nothing but the signs of its resemblance.  And at the same time, another figure of power comes into play: that of a collective demand for signs of power - a holy union that is reconstructed around its disappearance. The whole world adheres to it more or less in terror of the collapse of the political. And in the end the game of power becomes nothing but the critical obsession with power - obsession with its death, obsession with its survival, which increases as it disappears. When it has totally disappeared, we will logically be under the total hallucination of power - a haunting memory that is already in evidence everywhere, expressing at once the compulsion to get rid of it (no one wants it anymore, everyone unloads it on everyone else) and the panicked nostalgia over its loss. The melancholy of societies without power: this has already stirred up fascism, that overdose of a strong referential in a society that cannot terminate its mourning.

 - Scrap from [ Simulacra & Simulation] by Jean Baudrillard, 1981

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