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Andrew Parry
In today's world, where we are constantly bombarded by images, simulations, and digital media, understanding the nature of reality has never been more important. Jean Baudrillard, one of the most…
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Jean Baudrillard
This translation originally published: Oxford: Berg, 2005.
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Features seminal essays written by Baudrillard for a journal devoted to a radical leftist critique of architecture, urbanism, and everyday life.
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An early work in which Baudrillard became Baudrillard.
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Jean Baudrillard meets Cookie Mueller in this gathering of French theory and new American fiction.
Jean Baudrillard,Marc Guillaume
A focused exploration of Baudrillard’s understanding and use of alterity and otherness, a crucial theme that appears and reappears throughout his work as a whole.
Quintessential thinker of the postmodern on the uniqueness of all things
Richard J. Lane
Richard J. Lane offers a comprehensive introduction to this complex and fascinating theorist, also examining the impact that Baudrillard has had on literary studies, media and cultural studies, sociology, philosophy…
A guide to Baudrillard. It is organized into eight sections including: Theoretical Issues; Postmodernism; Culture; War; America; Seduction; Fiction and Art; and, Baudrillard and Other Social Theorists.
Jean Baudrillard (1929 - 2007) was a social and cultural theorist known for his trenchant analyses of media and technological communication. This book offers a look at Baudrillard in relation…
Introduces a wide range of Baudrillard’s thoughts, including essays on subjectivity, sex, death and mass media culture
In this collection of journalistic essays, Baudrillard addresses subjects ranging from those he has already established as his trademark (virtual reality, Disneyworld, television) to unusual topics such as children’s rights…
Comprised of three essays written by Baudrillard in the lead-up to, during and after the military clash in the Gulf in 1992, this book is a penetrating and provocative analysis…
In this book Jean Baudrillard, one of the most celebrated and controversial contemporary social theorists, argues that the notion of the end of history is an illusion, and that we…
Examines humanities and social sciences around the idea of postmodernism. This book leads the reader on an exhilarating tour encompassing the end of Marxism, the enchantment of fashion, symbolism about…
Includes most organized discussion of mass media culture, the meaning of leisure, and anomie in affluent society.
Considers how human cloning heralds an end to sex and death and the divagations of living by instituting a realm of the Same, beyond the struggles of individuation. The author…
The quintessential thinker of postmodernism simplifies his key concepts for the lay person.
Jean Baudrillard is widely recognized as one of the most important and provocative writers of our age. This book is the third (after America and Cool Memories ) in a…
aeo Baudrillard is one of the most celebrated and controversial of contemporary social thinkers. aeo Baudrillard is Francea s leading philosopher of postmodernity. aeo This is an idiosyncratic, outrageous and…
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A material analysis of the sign which deepens Marx’s critique of political economy for spectacular times.
Paul Hegarty (University of Nottingham, UK)
Jean Baudrillard’s 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…
Mike Gane
Presents Baudrillard’s key concepts and examines his contribution to postmodernism, feminism, technology, art, war, time and politics
William Pawlett
This is the first comprehensive overview of Jean Baudrillard’s work from a socio/cultural perspective. This illuminating book explores many of Baudrillard’s key themes, like power, resistance, the social, subjectivity and…
Containing two previously unpublished essays by Jean Baudrillard, this book provides a series of dazzling demonstrations of the power of Baudrillard’s thought from many of his most accomplished commentators.
A reappraisal of Jean Baudrillard’s thoughts on the image, radical illusion and media culture. Through interviews and recent essays, Baudrillard introduces what he calls the stunning clarity of the photographic…
Rex Butler
This introductory text aims to go beyond Baudrillard’s thoughts on consumer objects, the Gulf War and America to identify the fundamental logic that underpins his writings. Through close readings of…
An expanded edition of the first comprehensive overview of Baudrillard’s work, this new edition adds examples from after 1985.
Brian Gogan
Jean Baudrillard, a French social theorist and critic often associated with postmodernism, has been studied as sociologist, philosopher, cultural theorist, political commentator, and photographer. In this volume, Brian Gogan establishes…
Marc Schuster
Since the publication of his first novel, Americana, in 1971, Don DeLillo has been regarded as a preeminent figure of American letters. Among the more prominent themes the author considers…
Hedda Friberg-Harnesk
This study is the first to apply aspects of Jean Baudrillard’s thinking on simulation to John Banville’s work by tracing and analyzing instances of simulation in seven novels and two…
Originally published between 1968 and 2009, this collection of 25 pieces includes six interviews translated into English for the first time and a new transcription of a Q&A session with…
Catherine Constable (Senior Lecturer, Film Studies, Sheffield Hallam University)
Presents ways in which The Matrix Trilogy adapts Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation . This book draws on adaptation theory and feminist philosophy in order to create a fresh methodology…
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Jean Baudrillard,Gary Genosko
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