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Simulacra and Simulation
Author | : Jean Baudrillard |
Publsiher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0472065211 |
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Develops a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notions of cultural production with notions of cultural expenditure. This book represents an effort to rethink cultural theory from the perspective of a concept of cultural materialism, one that radically redefines postmodern formulations of the body.
Simulacra and Simulation
Author | : Jean Baudrillard |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : UOM:39015037473249 |
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This book marked the author's first important step toward theorizing the postmodern condition. Moving away from Marxist and Freudian approaches, he develops here a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notions of cultural production with notions of cultural expenditure, using the concepts of the simulacrum (the copy without an original) and simulation to address the concept of mass reproduction and reproduciability characteristic of electronic media culture.
Simulations
Author | : Jean Baudrillard |
Publsiher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2016-09-09 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 153750391X |
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Simulations never existed as a book before it was "translated" into English. Actually it came from two different bookCovers written at different times by Jean Baudrillard. The first part of Simulations, and most provocative because it made a fiction of theory, was "The Procession of Simulacra." It had first been published in Simulacre et Simulations (1981). The second part, written much earlier and in a more academic mode, came from L'Echange Symbolique et la Mort (1977). It was a half-earnest, half-parodical attempt to "historicize" his own conceit by providing it with some kind of genealogy of the three orders of appearance: the Counterfeit attached to the classical period; Production for the industrial era; and Simulation, controlled by the code. It was Baudrillard's version of Foucault's Order of Things and his ironical commentary of the history of truth. The book opens on a quote from Ecclesiastes asserting flatly that "the simulacrum is true." It was certainly true in Baudrillard's book, but otherwise apocryphal.One of the most influential essays of the 20th century, Simulations was put together in 1983 in order to be published as the first little black book of Semiotext(e)'s new Foreign Agents Series. Baudrillard's bewildering thesis, a bold extrapolation on Ferdinand de Saussure's general theory of general linguistics, was in fact a clinical vision of contemporary consumer societies where signs don't refer anymore to anything except themselves. They all are generated by the matrix.In effect Baudrillard's essay (it quickly became a must to read both in the art world and in academe) was upholding the only reality there was in a world that keeps hiding the fact that it has none. Simulacrum is its own pure simulacrum and the simulacrum is true. In his celebrated analysis of Disneyland, Baudrillard demonstrates that its childish imaginary is neither true nor false, it is there to make us believe that the rest of America is real, when in fact America is a Disneyland. It is of the order of the hyper-real and of simulation. Few people at the time realized that Baudrillard's simulacrum itself wasn't a thing, but a "deterrence machine," just like Disneyland, meant to reveal the fact that the real is no longer real and illusion no longer possible. But the more impossible the illusion of reality becomes, the more impossible it is to separate true from false and the real from its artificial resurrection, the more panic-stricken the production of the real is.
Out Of Control
Author | : Kevin Kelly |
Publsiher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2009-04-30 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780786747030 |
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Out of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be indistinguishable from living things.
Symbolic Exchange and Death
Author | : Jean Baudrillard |
Publsiher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2016-12-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781473998407 |
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"This is easily Baudrillard’s most important work.... Anyone who wants to understand the complexity and provocativeness of Baudrillard’s richest period must read this text." – Douglas Kellner
The Gulf War Did Not Take Place
Author | : Jean Baudrillard |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0253210038 |
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In a provocative analysis written during the unfolding drama of 1992, Baudrillard draws on his concepts of simulation and the hyperreal to argue that the Gulf War did not take place but was a carefully scripted media event--a "virtual" war. Patton's introduction argues that Baudrillard, more than any other critic of the Gulf War, correctly identified the stakes involved in the gestation of the New World Order.
Reading Simulacra
Author | : M. W. Smith |
Publsiher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2001-09-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0791450643 |
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Traces the ways in which our culture has increasingly become a culture of simulations, and offers strategies for discerning meaning in a world where the difference between what is real and what is simulated has collapsed.
America
Author | : Jean Baudrillard |
Publsiher | : Verso |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0860919781 |
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In this, his most accessible and evocative book, France’s leading philosopher of postmodernism takes to the freeways in a collection of traveler’s tales from the land of hyperreality.