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41. The Gulf War Did Not Take Place by Jean Baudrillard | |
Paperback: 96
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(1995-10-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description 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. Customer Reviews (12)
The war happened, but didn't take place...
Short and Sweet
Opinion never constitutes reality!
So what?
The Gulf War Did Not Take Place. Baudrillard's exceedingly slight essay (a compilation of three articles published in the newspaper Libération) ceaselessly hammers away at these themes.He stands midway between the United States and Iraq, faulting each of these main actors about equally.For him, it is all aesthetics and ideology; the deeply important human, economic, and strategic issues raised by the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait disappear under the weight of his relentless abstraction.Thus unconnected from reality, Baudrillard mangles everything from the French president's name to the number of traffic fatalities in the United States. The result is a book of profound error and transcendent stupidity, the most inane ever reviewed in these pages. Middle East Quarterly, March 1996 ... Read more |
42. Simulacres Et Simulation (Debats) (French Edition) by Jean Baudrillard | |
Paperback: 235
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(1981-12-31)
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43. Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? (SB-The French List) by Jean Baudrillard | |
Hardcover: 72
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(2009-11-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description “Behind every image, something has disappeared. And that is the source of its fascination,” writes French theorist Jean Baudrillard in Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? In this, one of the last texts written before his death in March 2007, Baudrillard meditates poignantly on the question of disappearance. Throughout, he weaves an intricate set of variations on his theme, ranging from the potential disappearance of humanity as a result of the fulfillment of its goal of world mastery to the vanishing of reality due to the continual transmutation of the real into the virtual. Along the way, he takes in the more conventional question of the philosophical “subject,” whose disappearance has, in his view, been caused by a “pulverization of consciousness into all the interstices of reality.” Interspersed throughout the text are 15 photographs by Alain Willaume that help illustrate Baudrillard’s argument. Baudrillard insists that with disappearance, strange things happen—some things that were eliminated or repressed may return in destructive viral forms—yet at the same time, he reminds us that disappearance has a positive aspect, as a “vital dimension” of the existence of things. Customer Reviews (1)
pretty terrifying |
44. 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 |
45. The Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme Phenomena (Radical Thinkers) by Jean Baudrillard | |
Paperback: 200
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(2009-06-09)
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Baudrillard's Best Book?
easy fellas .... This means, mostly, that his comments on meaning and media are striking.It also means (unfortunately) that he provides little in the way of concrete or rigorous argumentation.Thankfully, this is not a problem if we consider the book a collection of inter-related aphorisms.In any case, Baudrillard "the poet" instead of Baudrillard "the theorist" allows us to conceptualize the expanding domain of media technologies in a different way.Whether there actually -is- anything to his claims will have to be shown by someone else. Since this book has had something of an influence on art criticism, I recommend it (albeit, with strong reservations about its basic claims)to anyone interested in cultural theory, the arts or any sort of contemporary "critical theory".
a virtuoso,yet probes the surface most of the time. . . This collection of essays are brilliant in that Baudrillard knows how to probe beneath the surface of art,of culture, like Madonna, Michael Jackson or current Hollywood, and the politics of Europe,of the demise of communism. He does it within a formant structure,with many levels of meaning spewed out in all directions. He is a virtuoso in that respect. What structures material reality? what directs it is not probed however with any degree of conviction and I think that is where his focus should be.You needn't be a Marxist to harbor these convictions simply ahumanist concerned with the direction of the world.
Facinating but reactionary |
46. Utopia Deferred: Writings from Utopie (1967–1978) (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents) by Jean Baudrillard | |
Paperback: 300
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(2006-09-01)
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47. De la seduction (L'Espace critique) (French Edition) by Jean Baudrillard | |
Paperback: 248
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(1979)
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48. Le Système des objets by Jean Baudrillard | |
Mass Market Paperback: 288
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(1978-10-13)
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49. Paroxysm: Interviews With Philippe Petit by Jean Baudrillard, Philippe Petit | |
Paperback: 120
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(1998-11)
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Postmodern nonsense
Great Introduction |
50. Radical Thinkers Set 4 (Vol. 12 Volume Set)(Radical Thinkers) by Theodor Adorno, Louis Althusser, Étienne Balibar, Jean Baudrillard, Walter Benjamin, Simon Critchley, Guy Debord, Terry Eagleton, Fredric Jameson, Georg Lukács, Chantal Mouffe, Gillian Rose, Paul Virilio | |
Paperback: 2512
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(2009-06-09)
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51. Utopia Deferred: Writings from Utopie (1967–1978) (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents) by Jean Baudrillard | |
Paperback: 300
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52. Paroxysm: Interviews With Philippe Petit by Jean Baudrillard, Philippe Petit | |
Paperback: 120
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(1998-11)
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Postmodern nonsense
Great Introduction |
53. Le Système des objets by Jean Baudrillard | |
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54. Radical Thinkers Set 4 (Vol. 12 Volume Set)(Radical Thinkers) by Theodor Adorno, Louis Althusser, Étienne Balibar, Jean Baudrillard, Walter Benjamin, Simon Critchley, Guy Debord, Terry Eagleton, Fredric Jameson, Georg Lukács, Chantal Mouffe, Gillian Rose, Paul Virilio | |
Paperback: 2512
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55. Jean Baudrillard: A Bibliography (Social Theory, a Bibliographic Series) by Joan Nordquist | |
Paperback: 60
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(1991-10)
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56. Jean Baudrillard: Live Theory (Live Theory Series) by Paul Hegarty | |
Paperback: 192
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(2004-06-08)
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57. L'effet Beaubourg: Implosion et dissuasion (Debats) (French Edition) by Jean Baudrillard | |
Hardcover: 50
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(1977)
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58. Enseignant de L'université Paris X Nanterre: Jack Lang, Michel Crozier, Jean Baudrillard, Henri Suhamy, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Michèle Salmona (French Edition) | |
Paperback: 464
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(2010-08-02)
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59. Jean Baudrillard zur Einführung by Falko Blask | |
Paperback: 168
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(2005)
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60. Jean Baudrillard: In Radical Uncertainty (Modern European Thinkers) by Mike Gane | |
Paperback: 160
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(2000-10-01)
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