Carnival / Cannibal

Authors

  • Jean Baudrillard Sorbonne/França

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2005.28.3332

Keywords:

Hegemony, Domination, carnivalization

Abstract

The hegemony ends with the domination (characterized by the relation lord/slave who is still a relationship, with a potential of alienation, of power relationships and conflicts). We internalize the world order and its operational mechanism, of which we are all hostages well more than slaves. The consensus, voluntary or involuntary, replaced the good old bondage. If the domination went through an authoritarian system of positive values, the contemporary hegemony is, unlike for a liquidation symbolic of all values. In this confusion comes to sink his own domination. All meanings come to abolish in your own sign and the profusion of signs parodies a reality which now cannot be found. This is what I would call a carnavalization, and this whole farce western rests on the cannibalization of reality by signs.

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Author Biography

Jean Baudrillard, Sorbonne/França

Considerado um dos principais teóricos da pós-modernidade e um dos autores que melhor diagnosticaram o mal-estar contemporâneo, Jean Baudrillard foi um dos fundadores da revista "Utopie", além de ter publicado mais de 50 livros ao longo de sua vida. Estudou alemão na Sorbonne, tendo traduzido para o francês obras de Karl Marx e Bertolt Brecht. Lecionou sociologia na Universidade de Nanterre e sua tese de doutorado, "O sistema dos Objetos", foi publicada em 1968. A obra era voltada para um estudo semiológico do consumo, assim como seus dois livros seguintes, "A Sociedade de Consumo" (1970) e "Por uma Crítica da Política Econômica do Signo" (1972). 

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Published

2008-04-13

How to Cite

Baudrillard, J. (2008). Carnival / Cannibal. Revista FAMECOS, 12(28), 7–17. https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2005.28.3332

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 28 (2005)

Section

Domination and Hegemony

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