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Baudrillard : a critical reader / edited by Douglas Kellner.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; Cambridge : Blackwell, [1995, reprint].Description: ix,333 p. : ill. ; 24cmISBN:
  • 9781557864659 (cased)
  • 9781557864659 (cased)
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Contents:
Introduction : Jean Baudrillard in the fin-de-millennium / Douglas Kellner -- The system of objects and the commodification of everyday life : the early Baudrillard / Mark Gottdiener -- The commodification of reality and the reality of commodification : Baudrillard, Debord, and postmodern theory / Steven Best -- Critical theory and technoculture : Habermas and Baudrillard / Mark Poster -- Semiotics, cybernetics, and the ecstasy of marketing communications / Kim Sawchuck -- Fashion and signification in Baudrillard / Efrat Tseëlon -- Fatal forms : toward a (neo) formal sociological theory of media culture / Joanthan S. Epstein and Margarete J. Epstein -- Symbolic exchange in hyperreality / Deborah Cook -- Capitalism and the code : a critique of Baudrillard's third order simulacrum / Sara Schoonmaker -- Simulation : the highest stage of capitalism? / James Der Derian -- Aesthetic production and cultural politics : Baudrillard and contemporary art / Timothy W. Luke -- Baudrillard, modernism, and postmodernism / Nicholas Zurbrugg -- Valorizing "the feminine" while rejecting feminism? : Baudrillard's feminist provocations / A. Keith Goshorn -- The drama of theory : vengeful objects and wily props / Gary Genosko -- Baudrillard, time, and the end / William Bogard.
Summary: In this assessment of Baudrillard's contributions to contemporary thought, the contributors explore his positions in terms of specific topics, fields and debates - from his early work on the "system of objects" to his most recent metaphysical speculations on the fatality of the subject.
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Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction : Jean Baudrillard in the fin-de-millennium / Douglas Kellner -- The system of objects and the commodification of everyday life : the early Baudrillard / Mark Gottdiener -- The commodification of reality and the reality of commodification : Baudrillard, Debord, and postmodern theory / Steven Best -- Critical theory and technoculture : Habermas and Baudrillard / Mark Poster -- Semiotics, cybernetics, and the ecstasy of marketing communications / Kim Sawchuck -- Fashion and signification in Baudrillard / Efrat Tseëlon -- Fatal forms : toward a (neo) formal sociological theory of media culture / Joanthan S. Epstein and Margarete J. Epstein -- Symbolic exchange in hyperreality / Deborah Cook -- Capitalism and the code : a critique of Baudrillard's third order simulacrum / Sara Schoonmaker -- Simulation : the highest stage of capitalism? / James Der Derian -- Aesthetic production and cultural politics : Baudrillard and contemporary art / Timothy W. Luke -- Baudrillard, modernism, and postmodernism / Nicholas Zurbrugg -- Valorizing "the feminine" while rejecting feminism? : Baudrillard's feminist provocations / A. Keith Goshorn -- The drama of theory : vengeful objects and wily props / Gary Genosko -- Baudrillard, time, and the end / William Bogard.

In this assessment of Baudrillard's contributions to contemporary thought, the contributors explore his positions in terms of specific topics, fields and debates - from his early work on the "system of objects" to his most recent metaphysical speculations on the fatality of the subject.

First publsihed: 1994.

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