Simulacra and Simulation

Simulacra and Simulation
Title Simulacra and Simulation PDF eBook
Author Jean Baudrillard
Publisher University of Michigan Press
Pages 174
Release 1994
Genre Art
ISBN 9780472065219

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Develops 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.




Simulations

Simulations
Title Simulations PDF eBook
Author Jean Baudrillard
Publisher Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages 160
Release 2016-09-09
Genre
ISBN 9781537503912

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Simulations never existed as a book before it was "translated" into English. Actually it came from two different bookCovers written at different times by Jean Baudrillard. The first part of Simulations, and most provocative because it made a fiction of theory, was "The Procession of Simulacra." It had first been published in Simulacre et Simulations (1981). The second part, written much earlier and in a more academic mode, came from L'Echange Symbolique et la Mort (1977). It was a half-earnest, half-parodical attempt to "historicize" his own conceit by providing it with some kind of genealogy of the three orders of appearance: the Counterfeit attached to the classical period; Production for the industrial era; and Simulation, controlled by the code. It was Baudrillard's version of Foucault's Order of Things and his ironical commentary of the history of truth. The book opens on a quote from Ecclesiastes asserting flatly that "the simulacrum is true." It was certainly true in Baudrillard's book, but otherwise apocryphal.One of the most influential essays of the 20th century, Simulations was put together in 1983 in order to be published as the first little black book of Semiotext(e)'s new Foreign Agents Series. Baudrillard's bewildering thesis, a bold extrapolation on Ferdinand de Saussure's general theory of general linguistics, was in fact a clinical vision of contemporary consumer societies where signs don't refer anymore to anything except themselves. They all are generated by the matrix.In effect Baudrillard's essay (it quickly became a must to read both in the art world and in academe) was upholding the only reality there was in a world that keeps hiding the fact that it has none. Simulacrum is its own pure simulacrum and the simulacrum is true. In his celebrated analysis of Disneyland, Baudrillard demonstrates that its childish imaginary is neither true nor false, it is there to make us believe that the rest of America is real, when in fact America is a Disneyland. It is of the order of the hyper-real and of simulation. Few people at the time realized that Baudrillard's simulacrum itself wasn't a thing, but a "deterrence machine," just like Disneyland, meant to reveal the fact that the real is no longer real and illusion no longer possible. But the more impossible the illusion of reality becomes, the more impossible it is to separate true from false and the real from its artificial resurrection, the more panic-stricken the production of the real is.




Symbolic Exchange and Death

Symbolic Exchange and Death
Title Symbolic Exchange and Death PDF eBook
Author Jean Baudrillard
Publisher SAGE
Pages 281
Release 2016-12-15
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1473998409

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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 simulacra, defining the historical passage from production to reproduction to simulation. A classic in its field, Symbolic Exchange and Death is a key source for the redefinition of contemporary social thought. Baudrillard′s critical gaze appraises social theories as diverse as cybernetics, ethnography, psychoanalysis, feminism, Marxism, communications theory and semiotics. This English translation begins with a new introductory essay.




America

America
Title America PDF eBook
Author Jean Baudrillard
Publisher Verso Books
Pages 149
Release 2020-05-05
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1789600715

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From the sierras of New Mexico to the streets of New York and LA by night-"a sort of luminous, geometric, incandescent immensity"-Baudrillard mixes aperus and observations with a wicked sense of fun to provide a unique insight into the country that dominates our world. In this new edition, leading cultural critic and novelist Geoff Dyer offers a thoughtful and perceptive take on the continued resonance of Baudrillard's America.




Seduction

Seduction
Title Seduction PDF eBook
Author Jean Baudrillard
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Pages 192
Release 1991-01-15
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780312052942

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Examines modern critical theory, feminism, and psychoanalysis, and discusses the modern concept of sex roles and the political aspect of human sexuality.




The Simulacra

The Simulacra
Title The Simulacra PDF eBook
Author Philip K. Dick
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages 243
Release 2011
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0547572506

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A disparate group of characters are brought together on a ravaged Earth and must contend with an underclass that's starting to ask too many questions.




Reading Simulacra

Reading Simulacra
Title Reading Simulacra PDF eBook
Author M. W. Smith
Publisher SUNY Press
Pages 156
Release 2001-09-06
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780791450642

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Traces the ways in which our culture has increasingly become a culture of simulations, and offers strategies for discerning meaning in a world where the difference between what is real and what is simulated has collapsed.