Carnival and Cannibal / Ventriloquous Evil

Synopsis

In Carnival and Cannibal, distinguished French philosopher Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) reflects on many of his most significant ideas concerning the significance of language and the relationship between the technological and the social. In this, one of his final works, Baudrillard identifies two fatal modes in which the world is currently engaged: the carnival and the cannibal, arguing essentially that contemporary society is transfixed by the spectacle of its own cultural creation and self-consumption.