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reversion of history >>
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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[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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