  Baudrillard also produced reflections on contemporary issues like the Gulf War, the September 11 terror attacks, that he saw as the only real “event” of the past decades, globalization, the US invasion of Iraq, and other occurrences of the  day.[8] Baudrillard also continued his metaphysical speculations in works such as The Transparency of Evil (1993 [1990]), The Illusion of the End (1994b [1992]), The Perfect Crime (1996b [1995]), Impossible Exchange (2001 [1999]), The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucicity Pact (2005), and The Conspiracy of Art (2005). These texts continue his excursions into the metaphysics of the object and defeat of the subject and ironical engagement with contemporary history and politics. Bringing together reflections that develop his ideas and/or comment on contemporary events, these texts continue to postulate a break within history in the space of a postmodern coupure, though Baudrillard himself usually distances himself from other versions of postmodern  theory.[9]