Introducing BaudrillardJean Baudrillard has been hailed as one of France's most subtle and powerful theorists. But his provocative style and assaults on sociology, feminism and Marxism have exposed him to accusations of promoting a dangerous new orthodoxy - of being the 'pimp' of postmodernism. Introducing Baudrillard cuts beneath the controversy of this misunderstood intellectual to present his radical claims that reality has been replaced by a simulated world of images and events ranging from TV news to Disneyland. It provides a clear account of Baudrillard's work on obesity, pornography and terrorism and trac. |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
20th century abstract alibi ambivalence America artists banal Baudrillard says Bauhaus becomes capitalism catastrophe Chris circulate claims commodity consumer objects critical critique destruction disappearance Disneyland dominated economic ecstatic everything exchange value exist extermination fake fashion Fatal strategies Feminism Foucault Frankfurt School fridge function Georges Bataille Gulf War human hyperreal ideology images Implosion INTRODUCING Baudrillard Jean Baudrillard Kostabi labour liberation logic longer March 1999 INTRODUCING Mark Kostabi Marx Marx's Marxism mass consumption mass culture mass media meaning mirror of production modern nature needs obscene opposed Order of Simulacra Phallocracy play Pop Art postmodern primitive societies productivist psychoanalysis radical reality reciprocal recycling relations representation repression reproduced seduction semiology Semiotext(e sexual sign exchange sign of production signifier Simulacra simulation Situationist social sociology spectacle structures symbolic exchange symbolic order system of objects Tasaday theory Today truth universe What's