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Simulacra and simulation

Jean Baudrillard (Author), Sheila Faria Glaser (Translator)
This book marked the author's first important step toward theorizing the postmodern condition. Moving away from Marxist and Freudian approaches, he develops here a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notions of cultural production with notions of cultural expenditure, using the concepts of the simulacrum (the copy without an original) and simulation to address the concept of mass reproduction and reproduciability characteristic of electronic media culture
Print Book, English, 1994
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1994
164 pages ; 23 cm
9780472095216, 9780472065219, 0472095218, 0472065211
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The precession of simulacra
History: a retro scenario
Holocaust
The China Syndrome
Apocalypse Now
The Beaubourg effect: implosion and deterrence
Hypermarket and hypercommodity
The implosion of meaning in the media
Absolute advertising, ground-zero advertising
Clone story
Holograms
Crash
Simulacra and science fiction
The animals: territory and metamorphoses
The remainder
The spiraling cadaver
Value's last tango
On nihilism
Translation from the French of: Simulacres et simulation
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