Baudrillard And The Media

Author : William Merrin
Publisher : Polity
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0745630731

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Baudrillard and the Media by William Merrin Pdf

'Baudrillard and the Media' is the first in-depth critical study of Jean Baudrillard's media theory. Rejecting the common positioning of Baudrillard within the discipline as a postmodernist it argues instead for the necessity of a fuller reading of his ideas and critical project. Merrin offers an overview and evaluation of his key arguments and themes, focusing especially upon the organising principle of his work: his theory of symbolic exchange and critique of the semiotic and of simulation. Upon this basis the book also resituates Baudrillard within media theory, developing an original, critical re-reading of his relationship with McLuhanism and arguing for the significance instead of hitherto neglected influences such as Boorstin. Emphasizing his critical value and contemporary relevance, 'Baudrillard and the Media' also provides the most detailed exploration yet of Baudrillard's theory of the non-event, considering its applicability through case studies of his controversial analyses of the Gulf War, of 9/11 and the Afghan and Iraq Wars and of his own appearance in the film The Matrix. Considering also Baudrillard's discussion of cinema, his theory and personal practice of photography and his critique of new media, the book concludes with an evaluation of his place within media and communication studies and an argument for his importance for this field. Students and scholars of the media, and media theory in particular, will welcome this clear and comprehensive study.

Author : Jean Baudrillard
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : 0472065211

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Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard Pdf

Develops a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notions of cultural production with notions of cultural expenditure. This book represents an effort to rethink cultural theory from the perspective of a concept of cultural materialism, one that radically redefines postmodern formulations of the body.

Author : Steve Redhead
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0231146132

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The Jean Baudrillard Reader by Steve Redhead Pdf

Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) was a controversial social and cultural theorist known for his trenchant analyses of media and technological communication. Belonging to the generation of French thinkers that included Gilles Deleuze, Jean-François Lyotard, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Lacan, Baudrillard has at times been vilified by his detractors, but the influence of his work on critical thought and pop culture is impossible to deny (many might recognize his name from The Matrix movies, which claimed to be based on the French theorist's ideas). Steve Redhead takes a fresh look at Baudrillard in relation to the intellectual and political climates in which he wrote. Baudrillard sought to produce a theory of modernity, but the modern world of the 1950s was radically different from the reality of the early twenty-first century. Beginning with Baudrillard's initial publications in the 1960s and concluding with his writings on 9/11 and Abu Ghraib, Redhead guides the reader through Baudrillard's difficult texts and unorthodox views on current issues. He also proposes an original theory of Baudrillard's relation to postmodernism, presenting the theorist's work as "non-postmodernist," after Bruno Latour's concept of "non-modernity." Each section of the Reader includes an extract from one of Baudrillard's writings, prefaced by a short bibliographical introduction that places the piece in context and puts the debate surrounding the theorist into sharp perspective. The conflict over Baudrillard's legacy stems largely from the fact that a comprehensive selection of his writings has yet to be translated and collected into one volume. The Jean Baudrillard Reader provides an expansive and much-needed portrait of the critic's resonant work.

Author : Jean Baudrillard
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0253210038

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The Gulf War Did Not Take Place by Jean Baudrillard Pdf

In a provocative analysis written during the unfolding drama of 1992, Baudrillard draws on his concepts of simulation and the hyperreal to argue that the Gulf War did not take place but was a carefully scripted media event--a "virtual" war. Patton's introduction argues that Baudrillard, more than any other critic of the Gulf War, correctly identified the stakes involved in the gestation of the New World Order.

Author : Elisabeth Kraus,Carolin Auer
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571131876

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Simulacrum America by Elisabeth Kraus,Carolin Auer Pdf

A collection of articles that analyses the role of the media in America from a deconstructionist viewpoint. This collection of original essays is a response to the paradigm shift that has taken place in cultural studies in the wake of postmodernism and poststructuralism. Such concepts as 'truth' or 'reality' have been increasingly called into question, since the realization that our experience of 'the real' is always mediated through an "empire of signs," as Roland Barthes put it. After a predominantly optimistic evaluation of the effects of the media in the 1960s (by Marshall McLuhan, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and others), a growing awareness of the total manipulation of society by mass-media imagery has emerged. The very concept of 'representation' has become problematic, witness the influential essay "The Precession of Simulacra" by the French sociologist Jean Baudrillard, in which he defines simulation as "the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal"- the current boom in 'realityTV' comes to mind. In the seventeen years since the publication of Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation, ever more sophisticated technologies based on the computer as the simulacrum machine par excellence have offered us powerful new means of manipulating data - and consequently, means of manipulating, editing, and inventing 'reality.' The aim of this study is to unmask false 'representations', showing history, personal and cultural identity (especially gender and racial identities), the simulacrum of speed -- and American 'reality' itself -- to be constructs.

Author : Gary Genosko
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134655878

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McLuhan and Baudrillard by Gary Genosko Pdf

Gary Genosko's timely study traces McLuhan's influence on the work of Jean Baudrillard, arguing that McLuhan's ideas have been far more influential than hitherto imagined in the development of postmodern theory. Genosko explores how McLuhan's ideas persist and are distorted through Baudrillard's work. He argues that it is through Baudrillard's influence that McLuhanism has had its greatest impact on contemporary cultural thought and practice.

Author : David B. Clarke,Marcus Doel,William Merrin,Richard G. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781134040711

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Jean Baudrillard by David B. Clarke,Marcus Doel,William Merrin,Richard G. Smith Pdf

Containing two previously unpublished essays by Jean Baudrillard, this book provides a series of dazzling demonstrations of the power of Baudrillard’s thought from many of his most accomplished commentators.

Author : Slavoj Zizek
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781781680315

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Welcome to the Desert of the Real by Slavoj Zizek Pdf

Liberals and conservatives proclaim the end of the American holiday from history. Now the easy games are over; one should take sides. Žižek argues this is precisely the temptation to be resisted. In such moments of apparently clear choices, the real alternatives are most hidden. Welcome to the Desert of the Real steps back, complicating the choices imposed on us. It proposes that global capitalism is fundamentalist and that America was complicit in the rise of Muslim fundamentalism. It points to our dreaming about the catastrophe in numerous disaster movies before it happened, and explores the irony that the tragedy has been used to legitimize torture. Last but not least it analyzes the fiasco of the predominant leftist response to the events.

Author : Paul Hegarty
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441121509

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Jean Baudrillard: Live Theory by Paul Hegarty Pdf

Jean Baudrillard's work on how contemporary society is dominated by the mass media has become extraordinarily influential. He is notorious for arguing that there is no real world, only simulations which have altered what events mean, and that only violent symbolic exchange can prevent the world becoming a total simulation. An ideal introduction to this most singular cultural critic and philosopher, Jean Baudrillard: live theory offers a comprehensive, critical account of Baudrillard's unsettling, visionary and often prescient work. Baudrillard's relation to a range of theorists as diverse as Nietzsche, Marx, McLuhan, Foucault and Lyotard is explained, and the impact of his thought on contemporary politics, popular culture and art is analyzed. Finally, in the new interview included here, Baudrillard outlines his own position and responds to his critics.

Author : Jean Baudrillard
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1991-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0312052944

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Seduction by Jean Baudrillard Pdf

Examines modern critical theory, feminism, and psychoanalysis, and discusses the modern concept of sex roles and the political aspect of human sexuality.

Author : Mark Poster
Publisher : Polity
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2001-05-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0745624510

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Jean Baudrillard by Mark Poster Pdf

Author : Jean Baudrillard
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781789603736

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The Perfect Crime by Jean Baudrillard Pdf

In his new book, perhaps the most cogent expression of his mature thought, Jean Baudrillard turns detective in order to investigate a crime which he hopes may yet be solved: the "murder" of reality. To solve the crime would be to unravel the social and technological processes by which reality has quite simply vanished under the deadly glare of media "real time." But Baudrillard is not merely intending to lament the disappearance of the real, an occurrence he recently described as "the most important event of modern history," nor even to meditate upon the paradoxes of reality and illusion, truth and its masks. The Perfect Crime is also the work of a great moraliste: a penetrating examination of vital aspects of the social, political and cultural life of the "advanced democracies" in the (very) late twentieth century. Where critics like McLuhan once exposed the alienating consequences of "the medium," Baudrillard lays bare the depredatory effects of an oppressive transparency on our social lives, of a relentless positivity on our critical faculties, and of a withering 'high definition' on our very sense of reality.

Author : Richard G Smith
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748694310

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Jean Baudrillard by Richard G Smith Pdf

This new collection gathers 23 highly insightful yet previously difficult-to-find interviews with Baudrillard, ranging over topics as diverse as art, war, technology, globalisation, terrorism and the fate of humanity.

Author : Jean Baudrillard
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781473994546

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The Consumer Society by Jean Baudrillard Pdf

Jean Baudrillard's classic text was one of the first to focus on the process and meaning of consumption in contemporary culture. Originally published in 1970, the book makes a vital contribution to current debates on consumption. The book includes Baudrillard's most organized discussion of mass media culture, the meaning of leisure, and anomie in affluent society. A chapter on the body demonstrates Baudrillard's extraordinary prescience for flagging vital subjects in contemporary culture long before others. This English translation begins with a new introductory essay.

Author : Mike Gane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134912414

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Baudrillard Live by Mike Gane Pdf

Jean Baudrillard arouses strong opinions. In this collection of his most important interviews the reader gains a unique and accessible overview of Baudrillard's key ideas. The collection includes many interviews that appear in English for the first time as well as a fascinating interview and encounter between the editor and Baudrillard in Paris.