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Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for Simulacra and SimulationDevelops a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notions of cultural production with notions of cultural expenditure. This book represents an effort to rethink cultural theory from the perspective of a concept of cultural materialism, one that radically redefines postmodern formulations of the body.
Full description- Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
- Published: 31 December 1994
- Format: Paperback 176 pages
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- Categories: Popular Culture | History Of Western Philosophy | Philosophy Of Mind
- ISBN 13: 9780472065219 ISBN 10: 0472065211
- Sales rank: 3,076
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Full description for Simulacra and Simulation
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.
