[D66] NY black-outs

[A.OUT]

('Terrorism is everywhere in the normality of the social')

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackout_in_New_York

Baudrillard:

"Nature is ter-rorist, as is the abrupt failure of the whole
technological system: the great New York black-outs ('65 and '77) create
more wonderful terrorist situations than the true ones, dream
situations. Better: these great technological accidents, like great
natural accidents, illustrate the possibility of a radicalsubjectless
subversion. The power failure of '77 in New York could have been
instigated by a very organised terrorist group; that would have changed
nothing in  its objective outcome. The same acts of violence, of
pillage, the same under-mining, the same suspension of the "social"
order would have ensued from it. This signifies that ter-rorism is not a
step of violence, but is everywhere in the normality of the social, such
that from one moment to the next it  can be transfigured into an
inverse, absurd, uncontrollable reality. The natural catastrophe acts in
this sense and so, paradoxically, it becomes the mythical expression of
the catastrophe of the social. Or rather the natural catastrophe being a
meaningless, non-representative vicissitude par excellence (unless
representative of God, which is why the person in charge of Continental
Edison was able to speak of God and his intervention during the last New
York blackout), it  becomes a kind of symptom or violent incarnation of
the state of the social, name-ly of its catastrophe and of the collapse
of every representation supporting it."

https://monoskop.org/images/c/c4/Baudrillard_Jean_In_the_Shadow_of_the_Silent_Majorities_or_The_End_of_the_Social_and_Other_Essays.pdf