Simulacra and Simulation Paperback / softback
by Jean Baudrillard
Part of the The Body in Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism series
Paperback / softback
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The first full-length translation in English of an essential work of postmodernism.The publication of Simulacra et Simulation in 1981 marked Jean Baudrillard's first important step toward theorizing the postmodern.
Moving away from the Marxist/Freudian approaches that had concerned him earlier, Baudrillard developed in this book a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notions of cultural production with notions of cultural expenditure.
Baudrillard uses the concepts of the simulacra - the copy without an original - and simulation.
These terms are crucial to an understanding of the postmodern, to the extent that they address the concept of mass reproduction and reproduceability that characterizes our electronic media culture.
Baudrillard's book represents a unique and original effort to rethink cultural theory from the perspective of a new concept of cultural materialism, one that radically redefines postmodern formulations of the body.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:176 pages
- Publisher:The University of Michigan Press
- Publication Date:31/12/1994
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- ISBN:9780472065219
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In Stock - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:176 pages
- Publisher:The University of Michigan Press
- Publication Date:31/12/1994
- Category:
- ISBN:9780472065219
