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Baudrillard
A Critical Reader
Douglas M. Kellner (Edited by), D Kellner (Author)
9781557864666, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 12 September 1994
352 pages
15.7 x 21.5 x 2.9 cm, 0.595 kg
"This work includes an introduction by Kellner and fourteen chapters whose authors creatively deal with many of the contributions, complexities and controversies surrounding one of the most troubling and delightful philosophers of our time. The introduction by Douglas Kellner is a brief, yet insightful preface to the volume. As Kellner effectively began in his earlier works, this new contribution to the growing literature on Baudrillard continues to pave a critical path." Scott Lukas, Perspectives on Postmodernity
Self-described "intellectual terrorist" Jean Baudrillard is one of the most important and provocative writers of the contemporary era. Widely acclaimed as the prophet to postmodernity, he has famously announced the disappearance of the subject, political economy, meaning, truth, the social, and the real in contemporary social formations.
Notes on Contributors vii Introduction: Jean Baudrillard in the Fin-de-Millennium 1 1. The System of Objects and the Commodification of Everyday Life: The Early Baudrillard 25 2. The Commodification of Reality and the Reality of Commodification: Baudrillard, Debord, and Postmodern Theory 41 3. Critical Theory and Technoculture: Habermas and Baudrillard 68 4. Semiotics, Cybernetics, and the Ecstasy of Marketing Communications 89 5. Fashion and Signification in Baudrillard 119 6. Fatal Forms: Toward a (Neo) Formal Sociological Theory of Media Culture 135 7. Symbolic Exchange in Hyperreality 150 8. Capitalism and the Code: A Critique of Baudrillard's Third Order Simulacrum 168 9. Simulation: The Highest Stage of Capitalism? 189 10. Aesthetic Production and Cultural Politics: Baudrillard and Contemporary Art 209 11. Baudrillard, Modernism, and Postmodernism 227 12. Valorizing “the Feminine” while Rejecting Feminism? – Baudrillard’s Feminist Provocations 257 13. The Drama of Theory: Vengeful Objects and Wily Props 292 14. Baudrillard, Time and the End 313
Douglas Kellner
Mark Gottdiener
Steven Best
Mark Poster
Kim Sawchuck
Efrat Tseelon
Jonathan S. Epstein and Margaarete J. Epstein
Deborah Cook
Sara Schoonmaker
James Der Derian
Timothy W. Luke
Nicholas Zurbrugg
Gary Genosko
William Bogard
Subject Areas: Sociology & anthropology [JH]
