Pub: Pawlett, William. "Hate / Code." KRITIKOS 5 (2008).

This paper examines Jean Baudrillard’s concept of the Code and applies it, briefly, to the urgent issues of hatred and violence. Baudrillard’s little-known notion of the “the hate” is explored in detail and the psychoanalytic terminology re-deployed in his work on hatred is clarified. Though Baudrillard never explicitly linked his notion of the Code to hatred, an argument is made that these concepts are closely related and that, placed in conjunction, they offer new and compelling ways of thinking about both hatred and its alternatives. This paper provides the theoretical groundwork to such an analysis; subsequent work will attempt a ‘radical empiricist’ exploration of hatred through case studies. Finally the figure of the Other and radical alterity, frequently evoked by Baudrillard, is central to my closing suggestion that radical alterity provides an alternative to, or protection from, the hate. The article may be downloaded here: http://intertheory.org/pawlett.htm.

PUB: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BAUDRILLARD STUDIES 5.2 (2008).

Table of Contents: Power and Virtuality

• Dr. Melanie Chan. Virtually Real and Really Virtual: Baudrillard’s Procession of Simulacrum and The Matrix.
• Dr. Paula Murphy. The Simulacra of Global Conflict

Theory As Challenge

• Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman. “Must we ourselves not become gods?” The Visual Theories of Foucault, Debord and Baudrillard in Explaining Contemporary Power Structures
• Maximilien Nayaradou. Terrorism As A Violent Way of Sharing Death in Baudrillard’s Theory

Too Much Is Too Much

• Jean Baudrillard. The Racing Driver and his Double
• Jean Baudrillard. Simulation and Transaesthetics: Towards the Vanishing Point of Art
• Marc J. LaFountain. Obscene Ethics: A Baudrillardian View of Spurlock’s Super Size Me
• Ryland Johnson. Baudrillard’s Butterfly Athleticism
• Jeff Roberts and Alex McVey. Affirmation – Being Resolved in Becoming Resolution

Visit the journal homepage here: http://www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/index.html.