[No.10] Deterrence
-reflection of Simulations p58-75
The chapter of Simulations discusses about the concept of war. Every country is trying to make something that they hope they will never need to use it to against the other people in the world. Baudrillard claims that "War 'spontaneously' came to an end when the objective had been attained. This is why it was de-escalated, demobilized so easily" (67), after knowing the existence of nuclear bomb, people starts to afraid of the power of it even it is not going to be used normally. I think the idea of cold war is dangerous because if people create strong weapon only because they have the potential to create and use it, this is not going to stop.
The simulation of war is different than what we discuss in previous chapter, because this threat is not visible for the public, but it is potentially increasing in an invisible way. And the public has no power to control the bomb making process to continue, or the decision of throwing the bomb to somewhere, all we have is a simulation thought of what will happen if the bomb explode, and that simulacra which never happen is the deterrence to keep us being civilized and live in peace.
Another thing that bring my attention is in this week the powerpoint slide which shows a video talks about the function of the nuclear station. It says the fuel of nuclear bomb need to be stored under a cool pool in order to lower the temperature of the chemical. If the machine which keep maintaining the weapon get shut down, the nuclear is going to have implosion. How interesting it is that human creates something that is too powerful that ourselves cannot even control it easily in order to keep the surface of the world looks "peaceful"?
The chapter of Simulations discusses about the concept of war. Every country is trying to make something that they hope they will never need to use it to against the other people in the world. Baudrillard claims that "War 'spontaneously' came to an end when the objective had been attained. This is why it was de-escalated, demobilized so easily" (67), after knowing the existence of nuclear bomb, people starts to afraid of the power of it even it is not going to be used normally. I think the idea of cold war is dangerous because if people create strong weapon only because they have the potential to create and use it, this is not going to stop.
"the very possibility of paralyzing a whole country with the flick of a switch makes it impossible that electrical engineers will ever utilize this weapon" (73)
The simulation of war is different than what we discuss in previous chapter, because this threat is not visible for the public, but it is potentially increasing in an invisible way. And the public has no power to control the bomb making process to continue, or the decision of throwing the bomb to somewhere, all we have is a simulation thought of what will happen if the bomb explode, and that simulacra which never happen is the deterrence to keep us being civilized and live in peace.
Another thing that bring my attention is in this week the powerpoint slide which shows a video talks about the function of the nuclear station. It says the fuel of nuclear bomb need to be stored under a cool pool in order to lower the temperature of the chemical. If the machine which keep maintaining the weapon get shut down, the nuclear is going to have implosion. How interesting it is that human creates something that is too powerful that ourselves cannot even control it easily in order to keep the surface of the world looks "peaceful"?
I am still wondering the connection between nuclear and communist.What connection can we make about orbit and nuclear and communist? The potential threat of communism's government that they can make some big choice to change the whole country's order and way of function by a simple decision because the public has no right to control any political action?
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vocabulary building
it's just a lot.
disposal 处置
hypnosis 催眠
Remold 改造
Counterfeit 仿制
contrivance invent
apotheosis 神话
Crept 匍匐
trivialized doesn’t matter
Aleatory luckily
Arsenal 军火库
Ephemeral a short time, a moment
Wager 赌注
Devaluated 贬值，抵消
Leukemises 白血病？
Menace threat
Implosive
Annihilation 歼灭
Stirs move
Posture gesture
Satellisation
pacification calm down
Defiance 蔑视 反抗
Unfurl 张开 展开
Escalation increase
Puerile childish
circumscribed set a range
Embryo
Contingency accident
Immanence born with
Asepsis 无菌
Dumbfounded astonishing
Aura smell, atomosphere
Transgression illegal
Minutia little things
Vertigo dizzy
Flawless perfect Infallibility
Excentric 不同圆心的
Implodes
Deployment 调度u
Dock 码头
Homogenisation 基因同化
Mishap tragedy
Summit peak
Arduous difficult
Antagonism against
Communal 公民的，公共的
Allegiance 忠诚，拥护
Domesticating 驯化
monetary money
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