Baudrillards remarkably prescient meditation on terrorism throws light on post911 delusional fears and political simulations. Published one year after Forget Foucault In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities 1978 may be the most important sociopolitical manifesto of the twentieth century it calls for nothing less than the end of both sociology and politics. Disenfranchised revolutionaries the Red Brigades the BaaderMeinhof Gang hoped to reach the masses directly through spectacular actions but t