| Description |
1 online resource (193 pages) |
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Live Theory |
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Live Theory
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| Contents |
Acknowledgements; Note on References; Introduction; 1 System and Exchange: From Marxism to the Symbolic; 2 Simulation and the Decay of the Real; 3 Other than Simulation; 4 Geopolitics of the Real; 5 Objects of Culture; 6 Interview with Jean Baudrillard; 7 Before and After Baudrillard; 8 Conclusion: Singularity; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Jean BaudrillardGÇÖs 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 BaudrillardGÇÖs unsettling, visionary and often prescient work. BaudrillardGÇÖs relation to a range of theorists as diverse |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Baudrillard, Jean, 1929-2007.
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| SUBJECT |
Baudrillard, Jean, 1929-2007 fast |
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Philosophers -- France.
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Philosophers
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France
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781441121509 |
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1441121501 |
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