| Description |
ix, 208 pages ; 20 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
AIDS: Virulence or Prophylaxis? -- We are all Transsexuals Now -- Necrospective around Martin Heidegger -- In Praise of a Virtual Crash -- The Viral Economy -- The Depressurization of the West -- The Defrosting of Eastern Europe and the End of History -- No Pity for Sarajevo -- Otherness Surgery -- The Powerlessness of the Virtual -- Western Subserbience -- When the West Takes the Dead Man's Place -- The Great Laundering -- Weep, Citizens! -- Helots and Elites -- Information at the Meteorological Stage -- Disembodied Violence: Hate -- Psychedelic Violence: Drugs -- The Dark Continent of Childhood -- The Double Extermination -- 'Lost from View' and Truly Disappeared -- Sexuality as a Sexually Transmitted Disease -- Sovereignty of the Strike -- Tierra del Fuego -- New York -- World Debt and Parallel Universe -- The Shadow of the Commendatore -- The Mirror of Corruption -- Disneyworld Company -- The Global and the Universal -- Deep Blue or the Computer's Melancholia -- The Racing Driver and his Double -- Ruminations for Spongiform Encephala -- Screened Out -- The Art Conspiracy -- TV Fantasies -- Of Course Chirac is Useless -- The Clone or the Degree Xerox of the Species -- Exorcism in Politics or the Conspiracy of Imbeciles |
| Summary |
"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 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."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Originally published: Écran total. Paris : Galilée, 1997 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Translated from the French |
| Subject |
Civilization, Modern -- 20th century.
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Philosophy and civilization.
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Civilization, Modern -- 1950-
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Social history -- 1970-
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| LC no. |
2002028072 |
| ISBN |
1859846602 |
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9781859846605 |
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1859843859 paperback |
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9781859843857 paperback |
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