end, perfect crime, destiny, impossible exchange, duality, and thought. This book might be said to be the exploration, first, of the ‘fateful’ consequences, and subsequently-by a poetic transference of situation-of the fortunate, happy consequences of impossible exchange. Gale Academic OneFile includes Jean Baudrillard, Passwords by B. This is our fate, and from this stem both the happiest and the most baleful consequences. Jean Baudrillard (UK: / b o d r j r / BOHD-rih-yar, US: / b o d r i r / BOHD-ree-AR, French: bodija 27 July 1929 6 March 2007) was a French sociologist, philosopher and poet with interest in cultural studies. Schemes for genetic experimentation and investigation are becoming infinitely ramified, and the more ramified they become the more the crucial question is left unanswered: who rules over life? Who rules over death? Baudrillard’s conclusion is that the true formula of contemporary nihilism lies here: the nihilism of value itself. The uncertainty of the world lies in the fact that it has no equivalent anywhere it cannot be exchanged for anything. Politics is laden with signs and meanings, but seen from the outside it has no meaning. Literally, they have no meaning outside themselves and cannot be exchanged for anything. The influence of Georges Bataille (the idea of the accursed share and general economy) and Marcel Mauss (the notion of gift-exchange) was always already present. Working his way through the various spheres and systems of everyday life-the political, the juridical, the economical, the aesthetic, the biological, among others-he finds that they are all characterized by the same non-equivalence, and hence the same eccentricity.
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