Revenge Of The Crystal - Classic Edition: Selected Writings on the Modern Object and Its Destiny, 1968-1983Jean Baudrillard’s work has enraged and baffled critics and commentators in the English speaking world for over twenty years. Has he gone beyond a joke? Or do his writings on the contemporary world and its significance offer us revelatory insights? One thing is certain: Baudrillard is neither an easy writer nor a soft target. Revenge of the Crystal supplies a corrective to those who would dismiss his work as irrelevant - and a welcome introduction to those who are coming to his work for the first time. It includes substantial translations of his major writings from the 1960s through to his critiques of consumption and Marxism in the 1970s, and his more speculative pronouncements in the 1980s on sexuality, the nature of politics and the effects of the ‘image machine’ on our imaginations and systems of meaning. |
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Página 83 - This play, however, is an affirmation of life — not an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a way of waking up to the very life we're living, which is so excellent once one gets one's mind and one's desires out of its way and lets it act of its own accord.
Página 89 - The effects of technology do not occur at the level of opinions or concepts, but alter sense ratios or patterns of perception steadily and without any resistance.
Página 132 - The pleasure of the vaginal caress does not have to be substituted for that of the clitoral caress. They each contribute, irreplaceably, to woman's pleasure. Among other caresses . . . Fondling the breasts, touching the vulva, spreading the lips, stroking the posterior wall of the vagina, brushing against the mouth of the uterus, and so on. To evoke only a few of the most specifically female pleasures.
Página 124 - With the progressive accentuation of the co-operative character of the labour process, there necessarily occurs a progressive extension of the concept of productive labour, and of the concept of the bearer of that labour, the productive worker. In order to work productively, it is no longer necessary for the individual himself to put his hand to the object; it is sufficient for him to be an organ of the collective labourer, and to perform any one of its subordinate functions. The definition of productive...
Página 125 - Complete automation in the realm of necessity would open the dimension of free time as the one in which man's private and societal existence would constitute itself. This would be the historical transcendence toward a new civilization' (Marcuse 1964, 36-7; emphases in original).
Página 125 - The reification of human labor power, driven to perfection, would shatter the reified form by cutting the chain that ties the individual to the machinery - the mechanism through which his own labor enslaves him.
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| Título | Revenge Of The Crystal - Classic Edition: Selected Writings on the Modern Object and Its Destiny, 1968-1983 Classics Series Pluto Classics |
| Autor | Jean Baudrillard |
| Editores | Paul Foss, Julian Pefanis |
| Traducido por | Paul Foss, Julian Pefanis |
| Edición | reimpresa |
| Editor | Pluto Press, 1999 |
| ISBN | 0745314430, 9780745314433 |
| N.º de páginas | 198 páginas |
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