Jean Baudrillard [ fatal theories
Jean Baudrillard was one of the most influential, radical, and visionary thinkers. Employing Baudrillard's key concepts, such as simulation, disappearance, and symbolic exchange, and deploying his
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ;New York :
Routledge ,
c2009
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| Series: | International library of sociology
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| Online Access: | NetLibrary |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction : the evil genius of Jean Baudrillard
- 2. The vanishing point of communication
- 3. On disappearance
- 4. Commentaries on Jean Baudrillard's "On disappearance"
- 5. Baudrillard's taste
- 6. Floral tributes, binge-drinking and the Ikea riot considered as an up-hill bicycle race
- 7. Better than butter : margarine and simulation
- 8. Baudrillard and the art conspiracy
- 9. 'Mirror, mirror' : The student of Prague in Baudrillard, Kracauer
- 10. The Gulf War revisited
- 11. Fate of the animal
- 12. Reality, now and then : Baudrillard and W-Bush's America
- 13. Baudrillard's sense of humour
- 14. The (un)sealing of the penultimate / Andrew Wernick.