Simulacra and SimulationThis 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. |
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User Review - MarkLacy - LibraryThingI've tried more than once to read this and have not succeeded. Just too hard. Seems like gobbledy-gook. Most of the time I have no idea what he's talking about. And particularly annoyed with his habit (or is it the fault of the translator?) of using adjectives as nouns. Read full review
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User Review - trilliams - LibraryThingBaudrillard is line a painfully verbose version of Dave Chappelle in Undercover Brother. He makes great points but his writing style obfuscates them and sometimes you just get the feeling he hates ... Read full review
Contents
The Precession of Simulacra | 1 |
A Retro Scenario | 43 |
Holocaust | 49 |
The China Syndrome | 53 |
Apocalypse Now | 59 |
Implosion and Deterrence | 61 |
Hypermarket and Hypercommodity | 75 |
The Implosion of Meaning in the Media | 79 |
Holograms | 105 |
Crash | 111 |
Simulacra and Science Fiction | 121 |
Territory and Metamorphoses | 129 |
The Remainder | 143 |
The Spiraling Cadaver | 149 |
Values Last Tango | 155 |
On Nihilism | 159 |
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| Title | Simulacra and Simulation Body, in theory The Body in Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism Series |
| Author | Jean Baudrillard |
| Editor | University of Michigan Press |
| Translated by | Sheila Faria Glaser |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | University of Michigan Press, 1994 |
| ISBN | 0472065211, 9780472065219 |
| Length | 164 pages |
| Subjects | › Social Science / Popular Culture |
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