Baudrillard reified the spectacular nature of Desert Storm’s media coverage with his famous phrase…

Baudrillard reified the spectacular nature of Desert Storm’s media coverage with his famous phrase “The Gulf War never happened”. (Baudrillard was, of course, being provocative: what he meant was that there is only a very loose association between the actual gulf war & what the media depicted it as.)

And, of course, the Emergency Broadcast Network made subversive mashups of Gulf War propaganda footage a cornerstone of its video installations and performances.