Author: Jean Baudrillard
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Keywords: agents, foreign, communication, ecstasy
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1988-06-01
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0936756365
ISBN-13: 9780936756363

This book marks an important evolution in Jean Baudrillard’s thought as he leaves behind his older and better-known concept of the "simulacrum" and tackles the new problem of digital technology acquiring organicity. The resulting world of cold communication and its indifferent alterity, seduction, metamorphoses, metastases, and transparency requires a new form of response. Writing in the shadow of Marshall McLuhan, Baudrillard insists that the content of communication is completely without meaning: the only thing that is communicated is communication itself. He sees the masses writhing i

Author: Jean Baudrillard
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: cultural, materialism, histories, theory, simulation, simulacra
Number of Pages: 164
Published: 1995-02-15
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0472065211
ISBN-13: 9780472065219

The first full-length translation in English of an essential work of postmodernist thought.

Author: Jean Baudrillard
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: phenomena, extreme, essays, evil, transparency
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1993-06
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0860915883
ISBN-13: 9780860915881

In this, his most important collection of essays since Le systeme des objets, Jean Baudrillard contemplates Western culture "after the orgy" -- the orgy, that is, of the revolutions of the 1960s. The sexual revolution has led, he argues, not to sexual liberation but to a reign of transvestism, to a confusion of the categories of man and woman -- to the "androgenous and Frankenstein appeal of a Michael Jackson." The revolution in art has led to a "transaesthetic realm of indifference." The cybernetic revolution has blurred the distinction between man and machine, while the political revolution

Author: Jean Baudrillard
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: culturetexts, seduction
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1991-01-15
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0312052944
ISBN-13: 9780312052942

Author: Jean Baudrillard
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: america
Number of Pages: 129
Published: 1989-10
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0860919781
ISBN-13: 9780860919780

Author: Jean Baudrillard
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: thinkers, radical, objects, system
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2006-01-17
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1844670538
ISBN-13: 9781844670536

A cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society, The System of Objects is a tour de force – a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all the live ideas of the day. Pressing Freudian and Saussurean categories into the service of a basically Marxist perspective, The System of Objects offers a cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society. Baudrillard classifies the everyday objects of the “new technical order” as functional, nonfunctional and metafunctional. He contrasts “modern” and “traditional”

Author: Jean Baudrillard
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: place, war, gulf
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1995-10-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0253210038
ISBN-13: 9780253210036

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.