ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on Jean Baudrillard's and Leonardo Sciascia's critique of Aldo Moro's kidnapping and death, and its implication for the cultural dynamics of postmodern politics. The body of Aldo Moro was, so to speak, at the crossroads between modern and postmodern politics, and this is where Sciascia and Baudrillard encountered it on their intellectual journeys. In the postmodern order inhabited by simulacra and non-exchangeable objects seducing people into deadly and obscene games, any classic critique of political power and of historical rationality seemed futile. Violence and over-exposure are the main characteristics of postmodern politics, and any singular political event can only be just another instance of a structural homogeneity independent from any particular victim or perpetrator. According to Baudrillard, in a postmodern age consisting uniquely of obscene virtual images, Death as non-being is always gaping like a vertigo-inducing abyss.
