| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 6025 |
| QUOTATION: | Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929), French semiologist. “Figures of the Transpolitical,” Fatal Strategies (1983, trans. 1990). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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