| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Jean Baudrillard: From Hyperreality to Disappearance; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Not Forgetting Baudrillard; 1"Too Bad about Patagonia; 2"Disappearance beyond Disappearance; 3"After Utopia: The Primitive Society of the Future; 4"The Possibility of Another Game; 5"Politics of Performance: Montand, Coluche = Le Pen?; 6"A Time of Promiscuity; 7"Forgetting Critiques; 8"Cover Story; 9"Symbolic Exchange: Taking Theory Seriously; 10"Vivisecting the 90s; 11"Things Surpass Themselves; 12"On the New Technologies; 13"I'm Not a Prophet; 14"Endangered Species? |
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15"Hate: A Last Sign of Life16"Europe, Globalisation and the Destiny of Culture; 17"Between Difference and Singularity; 18"The Catastrophe of Paradox; 19"This is the Fourth World War; 20"The Matrix Decoded; 21"Continental Drift; 22"The Art of Disappearing; 23"The Antidote to the Global Lies in the Singular; Select Interviews and Dialogues; Books by Jean Baudrillard in English; Name Index; Subject Index |
| Summary |
23 collected interviews with the renowned French philosopher and cultural commentator, Jean Baudrillard. 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. From familiar themes to the less well understood aspects of his thought, these interviews give you an overview of Baudrillard's ideas - without the jargon typical of written texts. Read as Baudrillard himself discusses, explains and elaborates on his ideas, making this collection essential for understanding many of his other works. Key Features. The first book of collected interviews with Baudrillard for over two decades Valuable to new and seasoned readers of Baudrillard and to students and academics in philosophy, sociology, literary theory, art history, architecture, film and photography, cultural studies, human geography and media studies Gathers many unknown and otherwise unavailable pieces into one volume |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 12, 2016) |
| Subject |
Baudrillard, Jean, 1929-2007 -- Interviews
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| SUBJECT |
Baudrillard, Jean, 1929-2007 fast |
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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ART -- Criticism & Theory.
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| Genre/Form |
Interviews
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Smith, Richard G. (Lecturer in human geography), editor.
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Clarke, David B., 1964- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780748694303 |
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0748694307 |
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9780748694310 |
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0748694315 |
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0748694285 |
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9780748694280 |
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0748694293 |
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9780748694297 |
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