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JEAN BAUDRILLARD'S CONCEPTION OF THE PERFECT CRIME IN THE CONTEXT OF THE TECHNICAL ADVANCEMENT OF SOCIETIES
Jan GONDEK1
Present and the Coming Challenges
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (98-99) 2018, Publication date: 8 December 2018
Keywords: the perfect crime, information, Baudrillard, virtuality, digital technology, society
Abstract The paper presents Jean Baudrillard's conception of the so called “perfect crime.” This theory may serve as the basis for analysing digital technological processes taking place in modern societies. The article seeks to explicate the phenomenon of the perfect crime and to show the transformation of reality which has occurred in the context of the technical advancement of societies. In today's world, there is a phenomenon of transforming the real reality into its artificial counterpart. It is often more perfect and attractive in reception, however, it operates in detachment from its original. The phenomenon of the perfect crime functions in the context of broadly conceived technical advancement, however, in particular as part of the digital method of presenting information by means of the image. Social reality expressed by means of signs (the IT language) leads to the point when it is hard to distinguish the real reality from its double. Since the latter has a total and difficult to detect character. The effect of the article is the elucidation of the workings of the strategy of the digital decipherment of social reality.
Department of Social Microstructures and Modern Sociological Theories of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (KUL)
E-mail: jan-gondek@wp.pl