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21. The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society) by Professor Jean Baudrillard | |
Paperback: 224
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(1998-04-14)
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Editorial Review Product Description Written at a time when Baudrillard was moving away from both Marxism and institutional sociology, the book is more systematic than his later works. He is still pursuing the task of locating consumption in culture and society. So the reader will find here his most organized discussion of mass media culture, themeaning of leisure and anomie in affluent society. There is also a fascinating chapter on the body which shows yet again Baudrillard's extraordinary prescience in flagging the importance of vital subjects in contemporary culture long before his colleagues. Baudrillard is widely acclaimed as a key thinker in sociology, communication and cultural studies. This book makes available to English-speaking readers one of his most important works. It will be devoured by the steadily expanding circle of Baudrillard scholars, and it will also be required reading for students of the sociology of culture, communication and cultural studies. This edition is published with a long, specially prepared introductory essay written by the noted cultural commentator and social theorist, George Ritzer, author of The McDonaldization of Society. Customer Reviews (2)
A Great Introduction to a General Theory of Consumption
Symbolic exchange |
22. Amerique (French Edition) by Jean Baudrillard | |
Paperback: 249
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(1986)
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23. The Agony of Power (Semiotext(e) / Intervention) by Jean Baudrillard | |
Paperback: 88
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(2010-10-31)
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24. The Perfect Crime (Radical Thinkers) by Jean Baudrillard | |
Paperback: 156
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(2008-01-17)
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surprisingly lucid and poetic!
Baudrillard's Best Book |
25. For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign by Jean Baudrillard | |
Paperback: 214
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(1981-06-01)
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26. Cool Memories by Jean Baudrillard | |
Paperback: 240
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(1990-06-17)
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27. Adapting Philosophy: Jean Baudrillard and "The Matrix Trilogy" by Catherine Constable | |
Paperback: 208
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(2009-08-15)
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28. Jean Baudrillard, Art and Artefact by Jean Baudrillard | |
Paperback: 208
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(1998-01-12)
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Editorial Review Product Description Here for the first time, through a number of highly accessible interviews and recent essays, Baudrillard introduces what he calls the `stunning clarity' of the photographic, and fascinatingly outlines his present thoughts on urban reality, aesthetics, virtual reality and new media technologies, in the light of his practice as a photographer. The book is illustrated with eight colour plates of Baudrillard's photographs and includes a number of provocative and illuminating responses to his recent writings from noted Baudrillard scholars. It also incudes a definitive bibliography of critical responses to Baudrillard's writings on media culture, art and photography. |
29. Mass Identity Architecture: Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard | |
Paperback: 206
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(2006-07-28)
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architecture: the biggest "show" of power and consumism |
30. Looking Back on the End of the World by Jean Baudrillard, Gunter Gebauer, Dietmar Kamper, Dieter Lenzen, Edgar Morin, Gerburg Treusch-Dieter, Paul Virilio, Christoph Wulf | |
Paperback: 128
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(1989-06-01)
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31. Mass Identity Architecture: Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard | |
Paperback: 206
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(2006-07-28)
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architecture: the biggest "show" of power and consumism |
32. Cool Memories IV, 1995-2000 by Jean Baudrillard | |
Paperback: 192
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(2003-07-03)
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Intellectual(?) Entertainment......
Ramblings |
33. Jean Baudrillard (Routledge Critical Thinkers) by Richard J. Lane | |
Hardcover: 192
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(2009-01-22)
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Editorial Review Product Description Jean Baudrillard is one of the most controversial theorists of our time, famous for his claim that the Gulf War never happened and for his provocative writing on terrorism, specifically 9/11. This new and fully updated second edition includes: 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 and postmodernism. Customer Reviews (3)
excellent companion volume
Postmodern embodiment... Lane's text, following the pattern of the others, includes background information on Baudrillard and its significance, the key ideas and sources, and Baudrillard's continuing impact on other thinkers. As the series preface indicates, no critical thinker arises in a vacuum, so the context, influences and broader cultural environment are all important as a part of the study, something with which Baudrillard might agree, Why is Baudrillard included in this series? This series is primary for critical thinking in a literary sense, but also develops the cultural criticism aspect of which literary theory cannot help but be a part.Baudrillard, as Lane suggests, is not only one of the more famous names in postmodernism, but practically embodies postmodernism in his own work.Key ideas and catch-phrases of Baudrillard include 'simulation', 'hyperreal', and 'implosion of meaning'.Baudrillard is very much a product of the French literary/philosophical school of the 1960s, opting eventually toward a radical reworking of both primitive cultures and post-Marxist thought that some critics see as inconsistent and confused, but definitely not to be ignored. One of the useful features of the text is the side-bar boxes inserted at various points. For example, during the discussion on Baudrillard's development of writing strategies for postmodernism, there is brief discussion, set apart from the primary strand of the text, on Nihilism, developing further these ideas should the reader not be familiar with them, or at least not in the way with which Baudrillard would be working with ideas derived from them. Each section on a key idea spans fifteen to twenty pages, with a one-page summary concluding each, which gives a recap of the ideas (and provides a handy reference). One of the more useful pieces in this text is also the 'two worlds' listing, which develops some of contrasting ideas in the shift from modernity to postmodernity.These include hierarchy versus anarchy, selection versus participation, signified versus signifier, and more interesting, sometimes surprising pieces.In discussing the development of culture in all its various aspects in an American context, Baudrillard shows the difference in 'city' culture as one goes from East to West - one of the paradoxes of the postmodern situation in America is that there are two primary city paradigms, New York City and Los Angeles, each of which is a perfect example of the city structure, one built up and close-knit architecturally, and the other spread out and low-rising.The cultures of the two cities are quite different, yet both are quintessentially American and both undoubtedly urban.That two different cities occupy the centre at the same time is the paradox of postmodernity. Baudrillard has a fascination with America, which can be seen in his development and application of ideas such as the hyperreal and of simulation.The levels of simulation and hyperreality in America extend from the 'real' town square to the simulation of the town square in the shopping mall, which becomes a hyper-reality with controlled climates and selected people both as workers and shoppers; another classic example is that of Disneyland, with its carefully constructed and controlled environments, which is 'real' because it stands in contrast to the 'really real'.Media portrayals of events is also highlightedas examples of this kind of shift in thinking - the media distorts both the rhythm and the nature of the event, through selectivity and varying emphasis on actors and actions involved, and the kinds of manipulation to which media is always subject.News of real events becomes entertainment; entertainment programming becomes more fully developed and thus more real.We have more information, without more understanding, and the experience becomes more complex and involved, yet empty at the same time. Part of Baudrillard's fascination with America is an interest in the development of technology, and the growth of the production/consumer kind of culture, where everything becomes part of a system of commodities, including language and knowledge.Indeed, Western identity is constructed of these kinds of objects, which the system also requires to be destroyed (think of the built-in redundancy or ever-increasing development of 'new and improved' products) - a dialectical performance writ large over the culture. The concluding chapter, After Baudrillard, highlights some key areas of development in relation to other thinkers, as well as points of possible exploration for the reader.Baudrillard's ideas impact the development of aesthetic theory (from art to mere performance and entertainment).History and geography are also at issue, for the landscape of the past and of the present shifts with emphasis in different categories.Perhaps the most important development of significance to a postmodern fragmentation of the sort Baudrillard writes about is the internet, and the growth of theory from his influence is only beginning here. As do the other volumes in this series, Clark concludes with an annotated bibliography of works by Baudrillard in English (or English translation), works on Baudrillard, and a good index. While this series focuses intentionally upon literary theory, in fact this is only the starting point. For Baudrillard (as for others in this series) the expanse is far too broad to be drawn into such narrow guidelines, and the important and impact of the ideas extends out into the whole range of intellectual development. As intellectual endeavours of every sort depend upon language, understanding, and cultural interpretation, the thorough comprehension of how and why we know what we know is crucial.
A Concise & Accessible Introduction |
34. Looking Back on the End of the World by Jean Baudrillard, Gunter Gebauer, Dietmar Kamper, Dieter Lenzen, Edgar Morin, Gerburg Treusch-Dieter, Paul Virilio, Christoph Wulf | |
Paperback: 128
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(1989-06-01)
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35. The Ecstasy of Communication (Foreign Agents) by Jean Baudrillard | |
Paperback: 128
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(1988-06-01)
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painfully boring...
Modern Philo Par Excellence
A stimulating book |
36. Fragments: Interviews with Jean Baudrillard by Jean Baudrillard | |
Hardcover: 136
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(2003-12-09)
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interesting
Baudrillard's Table Talk--Under the Salt
liberating,violinin water,colour in a hot-dog sexectoplasm |
37. Jean Baudrillard: The Defence of the Real (Core Cultural Theorists series) by Rex Butler | |
Paperback: 192
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(1999-04-05)
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Editorial Review Product Description Baudrillard is a controversial figure. His work tends to fascinate and infuriate readers in equal numbers. Yet there is no doubting his importance to the key debates in culture and theory of the last ten years. A prolific author, readers sometimes find it difficult to tease out the consistencies in Baudrillard's arguments. This book seeks to redress the balance. It aims to go beyond his writings on consumer objects, the Gulf War and America, to identify the fundamental logic that underpins his writings. It does this through a series of close readings of his main texts, paying particular attention to the form and internal coherence of his arguments. The book contends that, just as Baudrillard himself grapples with the problems of how to criticize self-defining systems, so we cannot simply hold Baudrillard up against external standards but must seek to judge him on his own terms. Jean Baudrillard: A Defence of the Real will be an indispensable text for all those interested in social theory who want a general introduction to Baudrillard's work. |
38. Radical Alterity (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents) by Jean Baudrillard, Marc Guillaume | |
Paperback: 165
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(2008-04-30)
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39. The Illusion of the End by Jean Baudrillard | |
Paperback: 132
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(1994-12-01)
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Brilliant, Provocative, Disturbing . . . The central theme of this book is that time is becoming an illusion, and I would even say that Baudrillard already believes time has disappeared.Humankind, by falsely believing that time is linear and that "ends" exist, has created a reality out of illusions and is now gradually erasing history in an attempt to make itself "feel" better about living a life that is all but certain. Baudrillard does not spend a great deal of time wading through previous critics' opinions about the nature of time or what physicists may say about the past, present, and future.He jumps right into his own theories which really ask the reader to rethink his notions about our world and where humankind is going, or as Baudrillard would say - re-visiting - in its attempt to revise all of those little unpalatable events from the past such as the Cold War, Persian Gulf War, and the Timisoara massacre. Baudrillard is refreshing and shocking at the same time.Although his style is simple and stimulating, his ideas verge on the outrageous and the unpredictable.I recommend this book highly.
crunch your brain He talks about historyand the linear construction of time, and how this has framed our thoughtprocesses.Because of this artificial linearizing of time, he pokes fun at"ends."For Baudrillard, time has, more or less, stopped.It isno longer a question of forward or backward. He argues that we arespeeding towards hyperreality, where everything is sterile and eternal. Using the example of the compact disc, he says (roughly) "If objectsno longer grow old when you touch them, you must be dead."We need tosee and experince death and decay to constitute life.My only concern isthis implicit statement that there is a kind of default nature positon whenthings were right (vinyl records, no email, news travelling via mouth,etc.). Overall, brilliant and stimulating. ... Read more |
40. The Spirit of Terrorism, New Revised Edition by Jean Baudrillard | |
Paperback: 120
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(2003-10)
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"There's an end to all your talk about the virtual-this is something real!" (p.28)
falsely profound and profoundly false
America Sacrifice referes to his thesis in symbolic exchange and death that the only resistance to the 'system' is suicide, building on the third volume of Marx's Capital; so that dead labour now outweighs living labour, we all live in a world of death, the only refusal is to stop the system killin us. As the editor of the edition of 'The Gulf war did not take place' that I read showed; many people criticsed Baudrillard comparing him to a classical 'enlightenment' thinker like Noam Chomsky. But this edition then had a quote by Chomsky in the intro where he said it wasn't a 'war' because that conventionally meant two sides fighting against each other. Similarly, Baudrillard's point that we have all imagined the collapse of american empire; in a couple of different places in his work on US foreign policy Chomsky talks about the war mongers in Vietnam and what they said about the 'VC', hypothesising what they would have done if the VC had launched attacks in downtown New York. Besides which, why should Baudrillard have to explain himself to you in any case? If we can't see through the oxymoronism of a 'War on Terrorism' we deserve to blown up in densly populated city centres like the sheep we are.
America Sacrifice referes to his thesis in symbolic exchange and death that the only resistance to the 'system' is suicide, building on the third volume of Marx's Capital; so that dead labour now outweighs living labour, we all live in a world of death, the only refusal is to stop the system killin us. As the editor of the edition of 'The Gulf war did not take place' that I read showed; many people criticsed Baudrillard comparing him to a classical 'enlightenment' thinker like Noam Chomsky. But this edition then had a quote by Chomsky in the intro where he said it wasn't a 'war' because that conventionally meant two sides fighting against each other. Similarly, Baudrillard's point that we have all imagined the collapse of american empire; in a couple of different places in his work on US foreign policy Chomsky talks about the war mongers in Vietnam and what they said about the 'VC', hypothesising what they would have done if the VC had launched attacks in downtown New York. Besides which, why should Baudrillard have to explain himself to you in any case? If we can't see through the oxymoronism of a 'War on Terrorism' we deserve to blown up in densely populated city centres like the sheep we are. ... Read more |
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