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Jean Baudrillard : the disappearance of culture : uncollected interviews / edited by Richard G. Smith and David B. Clarke.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Richard G., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baudrillard, Jean, 1929-2007--Interviews.
- Baudrillard, Jean.
- Baudrillard, Jean, 1929-2007.
- Culture--Philosophy.
- Culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh, [Scotland] : Edinburgh University Press, 2017.
- Language Note:
- Contains 6 essays translated into English for the first time.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- Profound and original insights into the fate of culture in 25 collected interviews with Jean BaudrillardOriginally published between 1968 and 2009, the collection includes six interviews translated into English for the first time and a new transcription of a Q&A session with Baudrillard following a lecture he gave in London in 1994. The guiding theme of the collection is Baudrillard's engagement with culture. The implications of the implosion of Western culture are dissected and documented in the rich range of material included here.Gathers disparate interviews around culture/image production: a central problematic of Baudrillard's workEngages with key themes such as artifice, symbolic exchange and seductionProvides source material for scholarship concerning war, terrorism, architecture and new media
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Baudrillard Unplugged
- Interviews
- 1 Is Transgression a Mode of Political Action?
- 2 Dropping Out of History
- 3 Catastrophic, but Not Serious
- 4 The Apathy of the Masses
- 5 The Transparency of Kitsch
- 6 Baudrillard Shrugs: Terrorism and the Media
- 7 Strange World
- 8 The Ex-termination of the Real
- 9 La Commedia dell’Arte
- 10 From Popular Culture to Mass Culture
- 11 The Ecstasy of Photography
- 12 Baudrillard’s List
- 13 Viral and Metaleptic
- 14 The Homeopathic Disappearance of Architecture
- 15 For Illusion
- 16 Impossible and Unexchangeable
- 17 The Art of Disappearance
- 18 Solutions for a Post-technological Society
- 19 Apropos of Utopie
- 20 The Murder of Reality
- 21 Alterity as Fate
- 22 Artificiality and Seduction
- 23 The Roots of Evil
- 24 The Mirror of Photojournalism
- 25 Hoping to Resolve the Irresolvable
- Select Journal Special/Theme Issues/ Sections on Jean Baudrillard in English
- Select Books on Jean Baudrillard in English
- Name index
- Subject index
- Notes:
- Includes indexes.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 4, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 9781474417808
- 1474417809
- 9781474417792
- 1474417795
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