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Develops a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notions of cultural production with notions of cultural expenditure. This...
The System of Objects is a tour de force-a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all the ...
From the sierras of New Mexico to the streets of New York and LA by night-"a sort of luminous, geometric, incandescent immensity"-Baudrillard mixes ap...
Essays on Extreme Phenomena
The renowned postmodernist philosopher's tour-de-force contemplation of sex, technology, politics and disease in Western culture after the revolutiona...
Jean Baudrillard is one of the most celebrated and most controversial of contemporary social theorists. This major work occupies a central place in th...
Baudrillard's bewildering thesis, a bold extrapolation on Ferdinand de Saussure's general theory of general linguistics, is in fact a clinical vision ...
'Watching the president's Christmas message produces this necropolar, white-mass sensation. Seeing the video broadcast of the Christmas service in the...
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 h...
Working his way through the various spheres and systems of everyday life—the political, the juridical, the economical, the aesthetic, the biological...
A reappraisal of Jean Baudrillard's thoughts on the image, radical illusion and media culture. Through interviews and recent essays, Baudrillard intro...
Second Edition
An expanded edition of the first comprehensive overview of Baudrillard's work, this new edition adds examples from after 1985....
Jean Baudrillard's last book was about America. His new one is about cats, Foucault, Alfa Romeas, leukemia, Catholicism, the Berlin Wall, mattresses, ...
Myths and Structures
Jean Baudrillard′s classic text was one of the first to focus on the process and meaning of consumption in contemporary culture. Originally publishe...
In his new book, perhaps the most cogent expression of his mature thought, Jean Baudrillard turns detective in order to investigate a crime which he h...
In his analysis of the deep social trends rooted in production, consumption, and the symbolic, Jean Baudrillard touches the very heart of the concerns...
Cool Memories III, 1990-1995
This third book in the Cool Memories series is culled from Baudrillard’s notebooks in the period when he was composing The Illusion of the End and T...
or, The Lucidity Pact
In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, after the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and at the height of the "War on Terror", the controversial postmodernist...
''... brilliantly original ... brings cultural and post-colonial theory to bear on a wide range of authors with great skill and sensitivity.' Terry Ea...
Interviews with Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard is one of the most revered philosophers of the past century, and his work has helped define how we think about the post-modern. In th...
The art of living today has shifted to a continuous state of the experimental. In one of his last texts, Telemorphosis, renowned thinker and anti-phil...
Baudrillard sees the power of the terrorists as lying in the symbolism of slaughter-not merely the reality of death, but in a sacrifice that challenge...
The most provocative work from the father of postmodernism. A spectre haunts the revolutionary imagination: the spectre of production. Revolutionary t...
And Other Essays
Baudrillard's remarkably prescient meditation on terrorism throws light on post-9/11 delusional fears and political simulations....
Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard
This new edition further explores the connection between the cultural analysis provided by the contemporary philosopher Jean Baudrillard and the new �...
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 ...
Selected Writings
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Jean Baudrillard is generally recognized as one of the most important and provocative contemporary social theorists. But in the English speaking world...
Published one year after 'Forget Foucault', 'In The Shadow Of The Silent Majorities' may be the most important sociopolitical manifesto of the 20th ce...
1995-2000
Baudrillard's work of the last two decades has downplayed the position of the critical subject and gone over to the standpoint of the object. Nowhere ...
Baudrillard's unsettling coda: previously unpublished texts written just before the visionary theorist's death in 2007. History that repeats itself tu...
In a provocative analysis written during the unfolding drama of 1992, Baudrillard draws on his concepts of simulation and the hyperreal to argue that ...
Not long ago, two friends Jean Baudrillard and Enrique Valiente Noailles the one having come from Buenos Aires, the other from nowhere, met in Paris. ...
Characterizing it as a "mythic discourse," Jean Baudrillard proceeds, in this brilliant essay, to dismantle the powerful, seductive figure of Michel F...
Looking Back on the End of the World raises provocative questions about the possibilities of critical knowledge in social systems that seem to have su...
What does the advent of cloning mean for human beings? What does the turn of the millennium say about our relationship to time? The prophet of postmod...
Selected Writings on the Modern Object and Its Destiny, 1968-1983
Introduces a wide range of Baudrillard's thoughts, including essays on subjectivity, sex, death and mass media culture....
Are the concepts of labor and of production adaptable to a developing industrial society? What is the meaning of "pre-industrial organization"? In att...
In this wide-ranging discussion of events and ideas, Baudrillard moves between poetry and waterfalls, strikes and stealth bombers, Freud and La Ciccio...
Manifestos, Interviews, Essays
"In 1996 Jean Baudrillard scandalized the art world by denouncing a "conspiracy" of art. But most missed the point. He wasn't attacking art, because a...
Interviews with Philippe Petit
Closely interviewed by the French journalist Philippe Petit, Baudrillard covers a vast range of topics, including Fukuyama, 1989 and the collapse of C...