Simulacra and Simulation

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Pub. Date: 1994-12-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Michigan Pr
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Summary

Moving away from the Marxist/Freudian approaches that had concerned him earlier, Baudrillard developed in this book a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notions of cultural production with notions of cultural expenditure.

Table of Contents

The Precession of Simulacrap. 1
History: A Retro Scenariop. 43
Holocaustp. 49
The China Syndromep. 53
Apocalypse Nowp. 59
The Beaubourg Effect: Implosion and Deterrencep. 61
Hypermarket and Hypercommodityp. 75
The Implosion of Meaning in the Mediap. 79
Absolute Advertising, Ground-Zero Advertisingp. 87
Clone Storyp. 95
Hologramsp. 105
Crashp. 111
Simulacra and Science Fictionp. 121
The Animals: Territory and Metamorphosesp. 129
The Remainderp. 143
The Spiraling Cadaverp. 149
Value's Last Tangop. 155
On Nihilismp. 159
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