Blows that take life: from Israel to the Riviera Maya

Abstract

The signs of physical violence, the one that leaves marks on the bodies, of bombs, of bullets, are easy to detect, the mass media usually have in these signs their main source of resources that facilitate "veracity", that is The current media focus on building or deconstructing reality, hiding it or hiding it, not necessarily because they choose to do so, but because the history of violence cannot be covered in five minutes of live broadcast (with brief pseudo-impartial speeches) as much as the images are strong; so that what Jean Baudrillard called "showcase, a geometric place where the individual is no longer reflected but absorbed in the contemplation of multiplied objects / signs" (2007: p.246) and where people disappear as identities and its place is taken by consumption, no, there is no Marxist alienation in the sign-images, there cannot be because the individual has disappeared.