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.
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.
Cutting-edge theorist Jean Baudrillard on the complicitous dance of art, politics, economics, and media; includes "War Porn," on Abu Ghraib as a new genre of reality TV.
In this fourth collection of fragments and sketches, Baudrillard's stance is that of a barely participant observer, rather than an interventionist intellectual
”Øjnenes forførelse. Den mest umiddelbare, den reneste. Den er ordløs, det er ene og alene blikkene, der vikles ind i en slags duel, et umiddelbart favntag, uden andres vidende og andres... Læs mere
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The quintessential thinker of postmodernism simplifies his key concepts for the lay person.
Features postmodernity's quintessential theorist with his meditations on the meanings of objects.
The famous postmodernist thinker turns detective to investigate the murder of reality.