The Jean Baudrillard Reader / / Steve Redhead.

Jean Baudrillard was perhaps the most controversial of all social and cultural theorists. He has been variously vilified as a 'postmodernist', an 'overrated French theorist' and one of the 'intellectual imposters'. His comments on 9/11, Abu Ghraib and Europe's subu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. On Non-Postmodernity
  • 2. Mass Media Culture
  • 3. The Linguistic Imaginary
  • 4. The Ecliptic of Sex
  • 5. The Beaubourg Effect: Implosion and Deterrence
  • 6. Please Follow Me
  • 7. The Evil Demon of Images
  • 8. The Gulf War: Is It Really Taking Place?
  • 9. Pataphysics of the Year 2000
  • 10. Impossible Exchange
  • 11. The Millennium, or the Suspense of the Year 2000
  • 12. Truth or Radicality? The Future of Architecture
  • 13. The Art Conspiracy
  • 14. Requiem for the Twin Towers
  • 15. Pornography of War
  • 16. Contemporary Art: Art Contemporary with Itself
  • 17. The Pyres of Autumn
  • 18. We Have Never Been Postmodern: Reading Jean Baudrillard
  • Index