Jean Baudrillard: Live Theory / Edition 1

by Paul Hegarty

Overview

Jean Baudrillard's work on how contemporary society is dominated by the mass media has become extraordinarily influential. He is notorious for arguing that there is no real world, only simulations which have altered what events mean, and that only violent symbolic exchange can prevent the world becoming a total simulation.

An ideal introduction to this most singular cultural critic and philosopher, Jean Baudrillard: live theory offers a comprehensive, critical account of Baudrillard's unsettling, visionary and often prescient work. Baudrillard's relation to a range of theorists as diverse as Nietzsche, Marx, McLuhan, Foucault and Lyotard is explained, and the impact of his thought on contemporary politics, popular culture and art is analyzed. Finally, in the new interview included here, Baudrillard outlines his own position and responds to his critics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826462824
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/08/2004
Series:	Live Theory
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Paul Hegarty is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the author and editor of 11 books that span critical and cultural theory, rock, experimental and noise music, as well as audiovisual art including Noise/Music (Bloomsbury, 2007), Rumour and Radiation (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Annihilating Noise (Bloomsbury, 2020). He is also Co-editor of Bloomsbury's Ex:Centrics series.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgements	ix
	Note on References	xi
	Introduction	1
1	System and Exchange: From Marxism to the Symbolic	13
2	Simulation and the Decay of the Real	49
3	Other than Simulation	68
4	Geopolitics of the Real	91
5	Objects of Culture	112
6	Interview with Jean Baudrillard	134
7	Before and After Baudrillard	150
8	Conclusion: Singularity	161
	Bibliography	165
	Index	175