`Tu me préserves actif, je te préservatif' : this scabrous irony, heavy with blackmail, which is also that of Benetton, as it once was of the BNP, in fact conceals a technique of manipulation and dissolution of the social body by the stimulation of the vilest emotions: self-pity and self-disgust. If AIDS destroys biological immunities, then the collective theatricalization and brainwashing, the blackmailing into responsibility and mobilization, are playing their part in propagating the epidemic of information and, as a side-effect, in reinforcing the social body's immunodeficiency - a process that is already far advanced - and in promoting that other mental AIDS that is the Aids-athon, the Telethon and other assorted Thanatons - expiation and atonement of the collective bad conscience, pornographic orchestration of national unity.ĪIDS itself ends up looking like a side-effect of this demagogic virulence. The promotional infectiousness of information is just as obscene and dangerous as that of the virus.
All the anti-AIDS campaigns, playing on solidarity and fear - `Your AIDS interests me' - give rise to an emotional contagion as noxious as the biological. But in another way, the whole strategy of the prevention of illness merely shifts the problem from the biological to the social body.
“The AIDS obsession doubtless arises from the fact that the exceptional destiny of the sufferers gives them what others cruelly lack today: a strong, impregnable identity, a sacrificial identity - the privilege of illness, around which, in other cultures, the entire group once gravitated, and which we have abolished almost everywhere today by the enterprise of therapeutic eradication of Evil. The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact Whether or not these events are manufactured, they are orchestrated by the silent epidemic of the information networks. To the pure management of flows and markets under the banner of planetary deregulation, there corresponds the 'global' event- or rather the globalized non-event: the French victory in the World Cup, the year 2000, the death of Diana, The Matrix, etc. There's a great difference between the event that happens (happened) in historical time and the event that happens in the real time of information.
It's like taking out life insurance on your wife before you murder her. Of course it is merely a step from here to insider trading: betting on the event before you cause it is still the surest way (they say Bin Laden did this, speculating on TWA shares before 11 September).
#SIMULACRA AND SIMULATION QUOTES FREE#
You might speculate on the number of AIDS victims in Africa or on the probability that the San Andreas Fault will give way (the Pentagon's initiative is said to derive from the fact that they credit the free market in speculation with better forecasting powers than the secret services). This speculative market is intended to operate like the market in soya or sugar. You bet on the probable occurrence of such events against those who don't believe they'll happen. “This kind of speculation reached a high point with the Pentagon's initiative of creating a 'futures market in events', a stock market of prices for terrorist attacks or catastrophes.
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