The first full-length translation in English of an essential work of postmodernist thought
New edition of this classic study of the US, with a new introduction by Geoff Dyer.
A tour de force of the materialist semiotics of the early Baudrillard
A material analysis of the sign which deepens Marx's critique of political economy for spectacular times.
Quintessential thinker of the postmodern on the uniqueness of all things
Baudrillard's last book was about America. His new one is about cats, Foucault, Alfa-Romeos, leukemia, Catholicism, the Berlin Wall, mattresses, Laurent Fabius, John Paul II, roses,... Læs mere
Includes most organized discussion of mass media culture, the meaning of leisure, and anomie in affluent society.
Baudrillard here turns his hand to political debates and issues
Offers transcripts of interviews with French intellectual Jean Baudrillard, covering topics such as: Fukuyama; 1989 and the collapse of Communism; Bosnia; the Gulf War; Rwanda; the New World Order; consumer society and social exclusion; liberation; and nihilism.
Part of "Radical Thinkers" series, this work presents key texts by philosophers and thinkers. It offers a postmodernist philosopher's tour-de-force contemplation on sex, technology, politics and disease in Western culture after the 'orgy' of the 1960s.
Baudrillard's remarkably prescient meditation on terrorism throws light on post-9/11 delusional fears and political simulations.
Examines humanities and social sciences around the idea of postmodernism. This book 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.