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The Jean Baudrillard Reader / Steve Redhead.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748627882
  • 9781474471893
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 194 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. On Non-Postmodernity -- 2. Mass Media Culture -- 3. The Linguistic Imaginary -- 4. The Ecliptic of Sex -- 5. The Beaubourg Effect: Implosion and Deterrence -- 6. Please Follow Me -- 7. The Evil Demon of Images -- 8. The Gulf War: Is It Really Taking Place? -- 9. Pataphysics of the Year 2000 -- 10. Impossible Exchange -- 11. The Millennium, or the Suspense of the Year 2000 -- 12. Truth or Radicality? The Future of Architecture -- 13. The Art Conspiracy -- 14. Requiem for the Twin Towers -- 15. Pornography of War -- 16. Contemporary Art: Art Contemporary with Itself -- 17. The Pyres of Autumn -- 18. We Have Never Been Postmodern: Reading Jean Baudrillard -- Index
Summary: Jean Baudrillard was perhaps the most controversial of all social and cultural theorists. He has been variously vilified as a 'postmodernist', an 'overrated French theorist' and one of the 'intellectual imposters'. His comments on 9/11, Abu Ghraib and Europe's suburban riots have been eagerly sought and digested, and there is now a chance to read Baudrillard's texts in an overall historical, social and political context and for a cool re-assessment to be made of his life and work, after his death. This book concentrates on what Baudrillard has written over five decades and the order in which he wrote it. The Reader comprises extracts of Baudrillard's writings from the sixties to the noughties, with an editorial introduction and a concluding reading guide.Key FeaturesArranged chronologically in order of first publication in French, the Reader illustrates the development and interconnectedness of Baudrillard's work since the 1960s.Each section has an extract of one of Jean Baudrillard's writings translated into English, prefaced by a short bibliographical introduction setting the scene.The Reader will be of interest to general readers interested in public intellectuals, media events and contemporary theory.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. On Non-Postmodernity -- 2. Mass Media Culture -- 3. The Linguistic Imaginary -- 4. The Ecliptic of Sex -- 5. The Beaubourg Effect: Implosion and Deterrence -- 6. Please Follow Me -- 7. The Evil Demon of Images -- 8. The Gulf War: Is It Really Taking Place? -- 9. Pataphysics of the Year 2000 -- 10. Impossible Exchange -- 11. The Millennium, or the Suspense of the Year 2000 -- 12. Truth or Radicality? The Future of Architecture -- 13. The Art Conspiracy -- 14. Requiem for the Twin Towers -- 15. Pornography of War -- 16. Contemporary Art: Art Contemporary with Itself -- 17. The Pyres of Autumn -- 18. We Have Never Been Postmodern: Reading Jean Baudrillard -- Index

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Jean Baudrillard was perhaps the most controversial of all social and cultural theorists. He has been variously vilified as a 'postmodernist', an 'overrated French theorist' and one of the 'intellectual imposters'. His comments on 9/11, Abu Ghraib and Europe's suburban riots have been eagerly sought and digested, and there is now a chance to read Baudrillard's texts in an overall historical, social and political context and for a cool re-assessment to be made of his life and work, after his death. This book concentrates on what Baudrillard has written over five decades and the order in which he wrote it. The Reader comprises extracts of Baudrillard's writings from the sixties to the noughties, with an editorial introduction and a concluding reading guide.Key FeaturesArranged chronologically in order of first publication in French, the Reader illustrates the development and interconnectedness of Baudrillard's work since the 1960s.Each section has an extract of one of Jean Baudrillard's writings translated into English, prefaced by a short bibliographical introduction setting the scene.The Reader will be of interest to general readers interested in public intellectuals, media events and contemporary theory.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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