Jean Baudrillard: Fatal Theories

by Clarke; David B.

• ISBN13: 9780415464420
• ISBN10: 0415464420
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781134040704
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-24
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

Containing two previously unpublished essays by Jean Baudrillard, this book provides a series of dazzling demonstrations of the power of Baudrillard's thought from many of his most accomplished commentators.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	p. ix
Works	p. xiii
Introduction: the evil genius of Jean Baudrillard	p. 1
The vanishing point of communication	p. 15
On disappearance	p. 24
Commentaries on Jean Baudrillard's 'On disappearance'	p. 30
Baudrillard's taste	p. 49
Floral tributes, binge-drinking and the Ikea riot considered as an up-hill bicycle race	p. 61
Better than butter: margarine and simulation	p. 83
Baudrillard and the art conspiracy	p. 91
'Mirror, mirror': The Student of Prague in Baudrillard, Kracauer and Kittler	p. 105
The Gulf War revisited	p. 118
Fate of the animal	p. 136
Reality: now and then - Baudrillard and W-Bush's America	p. 147
Baudrillard's sense of humour	p. 165
The (un)sealing of the penultimate	p. 181
Index	p. 190
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