"The challenge of global confrontation," he writes Jean Baudrillard– It boils down to the challenge we have issued to other cultures to join our process of dismantling all values. It is not exactly a “clash of civilizations” nor a purely economic or political conflict. It is a challenge of a symbolic order: a physical and mental annihilation, a universal carnivalization that the West imposes at the price of its own humiliation and symbolic expropriation.”

Reading these texts from 2005 in 2020 is chilling due to their almost prophetic nature. The agony of power This places us before a Baudrillard always ahead of his time, attentive to the clues of the future in order to continue his devastating critical analysis of the present. A present increasingly marked by the colossal farce of the planetary repetition of the adventure of European modernity, by the metastasis of the image that makes us trivialize what we cannot assimilate, by the violence of deterrence and pacification, which takes the project of "ethnic purification of reality under the sign of good" even further, turning everything that resists it into terrorism and implanting a global white terror that no longer responds to the scheme of domination (in which there was still room for confrontation) but to that of hegemony.

The prologue of Christina Santamarina The accompanying text underlines the enduring relevance of this book, in which Baudrillard's most combative side shines through, while also contextualizing it within the broader context of his work.