Jean Baudrillard was one of the most influential, radical, and visionary thinkers of our age. His ideas have had a profound bearing on countless fields, from art and politics to science and technology. Once hailed as the high priest of postmodernity, Baudrillard's sophisticated theoretical analyses far surpass such simplistic caricatures. Bringing together Baudrillard's most accomplished and perceptive commentators, this book assesses his legacy for the twenty-first century. It includes two outstanding essays by Baudrillard: a remarkable, previously unpublished work entitled 'The vanishing point of communication, ' and one of Baudrillard's final texts, 'On disappearance', a veritable tour de force that serves as a culmination of his theoretical trajectory and a provocation to a new generation of thinkers. Employing Baudrillard's key concepts, such as simulation, disappearance, and symbolic exchange, and deploying his most radical strategies, such as escalation, seduction, and fatality, the volume's contributors offer a series of thought-provoking analyses of everything from art to politics, and from laughter to terror. It will be essential reading for anyone concerned with the fate of the world in the new millennium.

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Publisher

Routledge

Year

2008

eBook ISBN

9781134040704

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Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Sociology

Index

Social Sciences

Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
List of Contributors
Works by Jean Baudrillard in English
Introduction: the evil genius of Jean Baudrillard
1 The vanishing point of communication
2 On disappearance
3 Commentaries on Jean Baudrillard’s ‘On disappearance’
4 Baudrillard’s taste
5 Floral tributes, binge-drinking and the Ikea riot considered as an up-hill bicycle race
6 Better than butter: margarine and simulation
7 Baudrillard and the art conspiracy
8 ‘Mirror, mirror’: The Student of Prague in Baudrillard, Kracauer and Kittler
9 The Gulf War revisited
10 Fate of the animal
11 Reality: now and then – Baudrillard and W-Bush’s America
12 Baudrillard’s sense of humour
13 The (un)sealing of the penultimate

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