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The Jean Baudrillard Reader

Author : Steve Redhead
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0231146132

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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.

The Jean Baudrillard Reader

Author : Steven Redhead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0748680640

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This text provides a chronological introduction to the work of Jean Baudrillard, with a selection of classic readings.

Baudrillard

Author : Douglas M. Kellner
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1994-10-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1557864667

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Self-described "intellectual terrorist" Jean Baudrillard is one of the most important and provocative writers of the contemporary era. Widely acclaimed as the prophet to postmodernity, he has famously announced the disappearance of the subject, political economy, meaning, truth, the social, and the real in contemporary social formations.

Simulacra and Simulation

Author : Jean Baudrillard
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 48,7 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.

Symbolic Exchange and Death

Author : Jean Baudrillard
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781473998407

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"This is easily Baudrillard’s most important work.... Anyone who wants to understand the complexity and provocativeness of Baudrillard’s richest period must read this text." – Douglas Kellner

Impossible Exchange

Author : Jean Baudrillard
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781789600391

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Working his way through the various spheres and systems of everyday life-the political, the juridical, the economical, the aesthetic, the biological, among others-he finds that they are all characterized by the same non-equivalence, and hence the same eccentricity. Literally, they have no meaning outside themselves and cannot be exchanged for anything. Politics is laden with signs and meanings, but seen from the outside it has no meaning. Schemes for genetic experimentation and investigation are becoming infinitely ramified, and the more ramified they become the more the crucial question is left unanswered: who rules over life? Who rules over death? Baudrillard's conclusion is that the true formula of contemporary nihilism lies here: the nihilism of value itself. This is our fate, and from this stem both the happiest and the most baleful consequences. This book might be said to be the exploration, first, of the 'fateful' consequences, and subsequently-by a poetic transference of situation-of the fortunate, happy consequences of impossible exchange.

Jean Baudrillard

Author : Richard J. Lane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134026074

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Jean Baudrillard by Richard J. Lane Pdf

Jean Baudrillard is one of the most controversial theorists of our time, famous for his claim that the Gulf War never happened and for his provocative writing on terrorism, specifically 9/11. This new and fully updated second edition includes: an introduction to Baudrillard’s key works and theories such as simulation and hyperreality coverage of Baudrillard’s later work on the question of postmodernism a new chapter on Baudrillard and terrorism engagement with architecture and urbanism through the Utopie group a look at the most recent applications of Baudrillard’s ideas. Richard J. Lane offers a comprehensive introduction to this complex and fascinating theorist, also examining the impact that Baudrillard has had on literary studies, media and cultural studies, sociology, philosophy and postmodernism.

Screened Out

Author : Jean Baudrillard
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781781682098

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‘Watching the president’s Christmas message produces this necropolar, white-mass sensation. Seeing the video broadcast of the Christmas service in the cathedral itself, with these pathetic screens and the young worshippers slumped around them here and there, you tell yourself that God and religion deserved better. Deserved to die, yes, but not this. However, watching the presidential figure and his sonorous inanity, you tell yourself that here at least you got what you deserved. Chirac is useless – that goes without saying – but so are we all ... Uselessness of this kind has no origin: it exists immediately, reciprocally; like a shared secret, you savour it implicitly – with its warm bitterness – particularly in these cold snaps, as the very essence of the social bond. Sanctioned by that other interactive uselessness – the uselessness of the screen.’ World-renowned for his lively and often iconoclastic reading of contemporary culture and thought, Jean Baudrillard here turns his hand to topical political debates and issues. In this stimulating collection of journalistic essays Baudrillard addresses subjects ranging from those already established as his trademark (virtual reality, Disney, television) to more unusual topics such as the Western intervention in Bosnia, children’s rights, Holocaust revisionism, AIDS, the Rushdie fatwa, Formula One racing, mad cow disease, genetic cloning, and the uselessness of Chirac. These are coruscating and intriguing articles, not least because they show that Baudrillard is – pace his critics – still susceptible and alert to influences from social movements and the world beyond the hyperreal.

Seduction

Author : Jean Baudrillard
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,5 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.

America

Author : Jean Baudrillard
Publisher : Verso
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0860919781

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America by Jean Baudrillard Pdf

In this, his most accessible and evocative book, France’s leading philosopher of postmodernism takes to the freeways in a collection of traveler’s tales from the land of hyperreality.

Simulations

Author : Jean Baudrillard
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 153750391X

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Simulations never existed as a book before it was "translated" into English. Actually it came from two different bookCovers written at different times by Jean Baudrillard. The first part of Simulations, and most provocative because it made a fiction of theory, was "The Procession of Simulacra." It had first been published in Simulacre et Simulations (1981). The second part, written much earlier and in a more academic mode, came from L'Echange Symbolique et la Mort (1977). It was a half-earnest, half-parodical attempt to "historicize" his own conceit by providing it with some kind of genealogy of the three orders of appearance: the Counterfeit attached to the classical period; Production for the industrial era; and Simulation, controlled by the code. It was Baudrillard's version of Foucault's Order of Things and his ironical commentary of the history of truth. The book opens on a quote from Ecclesiastes asserting flatly that "the simulacrum is true." It was certainly true in Baudrillard's book, but otherwise apocryphal.One of the most influential essays of the 20th century, Simulations was put together in 1983 in order to be published as the first little black book of Semiotext(e)'s new Foreign Agents Series. Baudrillard's bewildering thesis, a bold extrapolation on Ferdinand de Saussure's general theory of general linguistics, was in fact a clinical vision of contemporary consumer societies where signs don't refer anymore to anything except themselves. They all are generated by the matrix.In effect Baudrillard's essay (it quickly became a must to read both in the art world and in academe) was upholding the only reality there was in a world that keeps hiding the fact that it has none. Simulacrum is its own pure simulacrum and the simulacrum is true. In his celebrated analysis of Disneyland, Baudrillard demonstrates that its childish imaginary is neither true nor false, it is there to make us believe that the rest of America is real, when in fact America is a Disneyland. It is of the order of the hyper-real and of simulation. Few people at the time realized that Baudrillard's simulacrum itself wasn't a thing, but a "deterrence machine," just like Disneyland, meant to reveal the fact that the real is no longer real and illusion no longer possible. But the more impossible the illusion of reality becomes, the more impossible it is to separate true from false and the real from its artificial resurrection, the more panic-stricken the production of the real is.

Jean Baudrillard

Author : David B. Clarke,Marcus Doel,William Merrin,Richard G. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 42,5 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.

Cultural Resistance Reader

Author : Stephen Duncombe
Publisher : Verso
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1859846599

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Cultural Resistance Reader by Stephen Duncombe Pdf

From the Diggers seizing St. George Hill in 1649 to Hacktivists staging virtual sit-ins in the 21st century, from the retributive fantasies of Robin Hoods to those of gangsta rappers, culture has long been used as a political weapon. This expansive and carefully crafted reader brings together many of the classic texts that help to define culture as a tool of resistance. With concise, illuminating introductions throughout, it presents a range of theoretical and historical writings that have influenced contemporary debate, and includes a number of new activist authors published here for the first time. Cultural Resistance Reader is both an invaluable scholarly resource and a tool for political activists. But most importantly it will inspire everyday readers to resist.

Jean Baudrillard

Author : Richard G Smith
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,5 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.