Baudrillard and signs : signification ablaze / Gary Genosko.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Genosko, Gary.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baudrillard, Jean, 1929-2007--Contributions in semiotics.

Baudrillard, Jean.

Semiotics.

Structuralism.

France--Intellectual life--20th century.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (219 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book relates Baudrillard's work to contemporary social r4248y. The author traces the connections between Baudrillard's work and Marx and Marxism; Lefebvre and structuralist method; the works of Saussure, Bataille, Barthes, Foucault, Mauss, Peirce, McLuhan and the Prague School. The result is an authoritative and stimulating account of Baudrillard and modern social theory.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Signs must burn!; Bar games; The table of conversions; Bar gains: neither Saussure nor Lacan; Simulation and semiosis; The metaphysics of the referent; The model of simulation as a condensed history of modern semiotic debate on the referent; A Peircean turn; Deleuze and Guattari in the polysemiotic field; A Peircean return; Varieties of symbolic exchange; Juste pour rire; Anagrammatic dispersion; Lyotard and the primitive hippies; The weak and the dead; Hostage anti-value; Pataphysical gestures

Empty signs and extravagant objects Salt, sand and simulation; Exotes like us; Wily props and vengeful objects; Conclusion: Signs of Baudrillard; Notes; Bibliography; Name index; Subject index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [172]-188) and indexes.

ISBN:

9781134831142

1134831145

9781280325472

128032547X

9781134831159

1134831153

9780203296660

0203296664

OCLC:

277655507