Baudrillard and Signs
Title | Baudrillard and Signs PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Genosko |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 219 |
Release | 2002-03-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1134831153 |
This book relates Baudrillard's work to contemporary social r4248y. The author traces the connections between Baudrillard's work and Marx and Marxism; Lefebvre and structuralist method; the works of Saussure, Bataille, Barthes, Foucault, Mauss, Peirce, McLuhan and the Prague School. The result is an authoritative and stimulating account of Baudrillard and modern social theory.
Simulacra and Simulation
Title | Simulacra and Simulation PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Baudrillard |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 174 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780472065219 |
Develops a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notions of cultural production with notions of cultural expenditure. This book represents an effort to rethink cultural theory from the perspective of a concept of cultural materialism, one that radically redefines postmodern formulations of the body.
For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign
Title | For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Baudrillard |
Publisher | Verso Books |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2019-07-23 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1788734831 |
A material analysis of the sign which deepens Marx's critique of political economy for spectacular times. What if the problems of modern society don't come from production, but rather consumption and the system of cultural signs? In this classic work from the defining intellectual of the postmodern, Jean Baudrillard, For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign takes Marx's critique of political economy and its analysis of the commodity form as the starting point for an analysis of signs and their meaning in modern society. Influenced by Lefebvre's critique of everyday life, Barthes's semiology, and Situationism, Baudrillard analyses how objects are encoded within the system of signs and meanings that constitute contemporary media and consumer societies. Combining semiological studies and sociology of the consumer society, For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign contains Baudrillard's most extensive engagement with Marxism and shows him at a critical juncture for the development of his thought.
Baudrillard and Signs
Title | Baudrillard and Signs PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Genosko |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2002-03-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1134831145 |
This book relates Baudrillard's work to contemporary social r4248y. The author traces the connections between Baudrillard's work and Marx and Marxism; Lefebvre and structuralist method; the works of Saussure, Bataille, Barthes, Foucault, Mauss, Peirce, McLuhan and the Prague School. The result is an authoritative and stimulating account of Baudrillard and modern social theory.
Symbolic Exchange and Death
Title | Symbolic Exchange and Death PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Baudrillard |
Publisher | SAGE |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2016-12-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1473998409 |
Jean Baudrillard is one of the most celebrated and most controversial of contemporary social theorists. This major work occupies a central place in the rethinking of the humanities and social sciences around the idea of postmodernism. It leads the reader on an exhilarating tour encompassing the end of Marxism, the enchantment of fashion, symbolism about sex and the body, and the relations between economic exchange and death. Most significantly, the book represents Baudrillard′s fullest elaboration of the concept of the three orders of the simulacra, defining the historical passage from production to reproduction to simulation. A classic in its field, Symbolic Exchange and Death is a key source for the redefinition of contemporary social thought. Baudrillard′s critical gaze appraises social theories as diverse as cybernetics, ethnography, psychoanalysis, feminism, Marxism, communications theory and semiotics. This English translation begins with a new introductory essay.
The Illusion of the End
Title | The Illusion of the End PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Baudrillard |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 142 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780804725019 |
The year 2000, the end of the millennium: is this anything other than a mirage, the illusion of an end, like so many other imaginary endpoints which have littered the path of history? In this remarkable book Jean BaurdrillardFrance's leading theorist of postmodernityargues that the notion of the end is part of the fantasy of a linear history. Today we are not approaching the end of history but moving into reverse, into a process of systematic obliteration. We are wiping out the entire twentieth century, effacing all signs of the cold War one by one, perhaps even the signs of the First and Second World Wars and of the political and ideological revolutions of our time. In short, we are engaged in a gigantic process of historical revisionism, and we seem in a hurry to finish it before the end of the century, secretly hoping perhaps to be able to begin again from scratch. Baudrillard explores the "fatal strategies of time" which shape our ways of thinking about history and its imaginary end. Ranging from the revolutions in Eastern Europe to the Gulf War, from the transformation of nature to the hyper-reality of the media, this postmodern mediation on modernity and its aftermath will be widely read.
For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign
Title | For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Baudrillard |
Publisher | Verso Books |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2019-07-23 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 178873484X |
A material analysis of the sign which deepens Marx's critique of political economy for spectacular times. What if the problems of modern society don't come from production, but rather consumption and the system of cultural signs? In this classic work from the defining intellectual of the postmodern, Jean Baudrillard, For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign takes Marx's critique of political economy and its analysis of the commodity form as the starting point for an analysis of signs and their meaning in modern society. Influenced by Lefebvre's critique of everyday life, Barthes's semiology, and Situationism, Baudrillard analyses how objects are encoded within the system of signs and meanings that constitute contemporary media and consumer societies. Combining semiological studies and sociology of the consumer society, For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign contains Baudrillard's most extensive engagement with Marxism and shows him at a critical juncture for the development of his thought.