BAUDRILLARD JEAN

(P/B) RADICAL ALTERITY
Alterity is in danger. It is a masterpiece in peril, an object lost or missing from our system, from the system of artificial intelligence and the system of communication in general. Where is the Other today? Can Otherness challenge our arrogant, insular cultural narcissism? From artificial intelligence to the streets of Venice, from early explorers to contemporary photographers, Jean Baudrillard and Marc Guillaume discuss the traces of radical alterity in our world. These provocative seminars, held in 1990 and 1991, follow the multiple, i...
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Η ΕΚΛΕΙΠΤΙΚΗ ΤΟΥ ΣΕΞ
Η σεξουαλική απελευθέρωση, όπως αυτή των παραγωγικών δυνάμεων, είναι δυνητικά απεριόριστη. Απαιτεί μία πραγματοποιούμενη και αδιάκοπη αφθονία, "sex affluent society". Δεν θα μπορούσε να ανεχτεί τη σπανιότητα των σεξουαλικών αγαθών, όπως και αυτήν των υλικών αγαθών. Αλλά αυτό το συνεχές και αυτό το διαθέσιμο, που είναι ουτοπικά, μόνο το θηλυκό φύλο μπορεί να τα ενσαρκώσει. Να λοιπόν γιατί τα πάντα σ' αυτήν την κοινωνία θα θηλυκοποιηθούν, θα σεξουαλοποιηθούν με τον θηλυκό τρόπο μαλακής σαγήνευσης, τα αντικείμενα, τα αγαθά, οι υπηρεσίες, οι κ...
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(P/B) SYMBOLIC EXCHANGE AND DEATH
Jean Baudrillard is one of the most celebrated and most controversial of contemporary social theorists. This major work occupies a central place in the rethinking of the humanities and social sciences around the idea of postmodernism. It leads the reader on an exhilarating tour encompassing the end of Marxism, the enchantment of fashion, symbolism about sex and the body, and the relations between economic exchange and death. Most significantly, the book represents Baudrillard's fullest elaboration of the concept of the three orders of the ...
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(P/B) THE ECSTASY OF COMMUNICATION
"Obscenity begins when there is no more spectacle, no more stage, no more theatre, no more illusions, when everything becomes immediately transparent, visible, exposed in the raw and inexorable light of information and communication. We no longer partake of the drama of alienation, but are in the ecstasy of communication". (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΣΤΟ ΟΠΙΣΘΟΦΥΛΛΟ ΤΟΥ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΥ)...
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FRAGMENTS
"Fragmentary writing is, ultimately, democratic writing. Each fragment enjoys an equal distinction. Even the most banal finds its exceptional reader. Each, in turn, has its hour of glory. Of course, each fragment could become a book. But the point is that it will not do so, for the ellipse is superior to the straight line..." This latest work in the Cool Memories series is culled from Baudrillard's notebooks in the period when he was composing The Illusion of the End and The Perfect Crime. It is a work of meditations and poetic musings whi...
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PAROXYSM
Jean Baudrillard is one of the most controversial and stimulating figures in contemporary philosophy and cultural criticism. Whether embraced or reviled for his reflections on 'hyperreality', he never fails to evoke strong reactions. Yet, all too often, discussion of Baudrillard's ideas takes place at one remove, with much imputed to him, and it is sometimes claimed that his writing is too abstract or obscure to analyse rigorously. Paroxysm offers the reader a new way to approach Baudrillard's ideas through the use of the interview format....
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(P/B) SELECTED WRITINGS
Jean Baudrillard, alternately provocative and astonishing, is one of the leading theorists of media and culture. Regarded by many as the chief prophet of postmodernism, his writings raise important issues about the changing nature of social and political life in our contemporary, media-saturated age. This book makes his most important writings available in a single volume. It includes selections from the entire range of his work, from his early writings on consumer culture and the political economy of the sign to his more recent work on d...
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(P/B) FORGET FOUCAULT
In 1976, Jean Baudrillard sent this essay to the French magazine Critique, where Michel Foucault was an editor. Foucault was asked to reply, but remained silent. Forget Foucault (1977) made Baudrillard instantly infamous in France. It was a devastating revisitation of Foucault's recent History of Sexuality - and of his entire oeuvre - and also an attack on those philosophers, like Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, who believed that desire could be revolutionary. In Baudrillard's eyes, desire and power were interchangeable, so desire had n...
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(P/B) THE CONSUMER SOCIETY
Now available in English for the first time, Jean Baudrillard's classic text was one of the first to focus on the process and meaning of consumption in contemporary culture. Originally published in 1970, the book still makes a vital contribution to current debates on consumption. Many of the themes which would make Baudrillard famous appear here for the first time. The book includes Baudrillard's most organized discussion of mass media culture, the meaning of leisure and anomie in affluent society. A chapter on the body demonstrates Baudri...
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(P/B) THE ILLUSION OF THE END
In this book Jean Baudrillard, one of the most celebrated and controversial contemporary social theorists, argues that the notion of the end of history is an illusion, and that we are now engaged in a gigantic process of historical revisionism. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) COOL MEMORIES II
This is the third in a series of personal records in hyper-reality from France's provocative philosopher of postmodernity....
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