Symbolic Exchange and DeathSAGE, 2016年12月15日 - 280 頁 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.
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... meaning of the term alienation. When this happens all elements in the system are affected as the proletariat is incorporated into the social order; trade unions, strikes, revolts such as May '68 lose their claim to justice and ...
... meaning (the signifier, or the signified named 'desire'), and so on. All these liberations provide the ideal content for the system to devour in its successive revolutions, and which it brings subtly back to life as mere phantasmas of ...
Jean Baudrillard. even when they are based on radical indeterminacy (the loss of meaning), fall prey, once more, to meaning. They collapse under the weight of their own monstrosity, like fossilised dinosaurs, and immediately decompose ...
... meaning, the linear syntagma of cumulative discourse. And at the same time, the end of the exchangevalue/usevalue dialectic which is the only thing that makes accumulation and social production possible. The end of the linear dimension ...
... meaning, an inflation of the signs of accountancy over which we can no longer even project the phantasy of the collective will. The pathos of growth itself is dead, since noone believes any longer in the pathos of production, whose ...