Alive Quote by Jean Baudrillard

“Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is nothis destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary… He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination.” quote by Jean Baudrillard — Download Open image

“Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is nothis destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary… He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination.”

Jean Baudrillard

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