Chris Horrocks

Introducing Baudrillard

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Illustrated guide to the controversial sociologist Jean Baudrillard, who died in 2007. Did the Gulf War take place? Is it possible to fake a bank robbery? Was sexual liberation a disaster? Jean Baudrillard has been hailed as one of France's most subtle and powerful theorists. But his provocative style and assaults on sociology, feminism and Marxism have exposed him to accusations of promoting a dangerous new orthodoxy — of being the 'pimp' of postmodernism. Introducing Baudrillard cuts beneath the controversy of this misunderstood intellectual to present his radical claims that reality has been replaced by a simulated world of images and events ranging from TV news to Disneyland. It provides a clear account of Baudrillard's work on obesity, pornography and terrorism and traces his development from critic of mass consumption to prophet of the apocalypse. Chris Horrocks' text and Zoran Jevtic?s artwork invite us to decide whether Baudrillard was a cure for the vertigo of contemporary culture — or one of its symptoms
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300 printed pages
Original publication
2015
Publication year
2015
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    infinite implication, the indefinite referral of signifier to signifier. This process I call différence
  • b2272133812has quoted4 years ago
    In fact, the meaning of meaning is infinite
  • b2272133812has quoted4 years ago
    If you were to see written on a door panel: “This opens onto the void”, wouldn’t you still want to open it?
    Spoilt children of the crisis, please follow me…

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