Baudrillards Bestiary

Author : Mike Gane
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134923899
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baudrillard's Bestiary written by Mike Gane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mike Gane provides an introduction to Baudrillard's cultural theory: the conception of modernity and the complex process of simulation. He examines Baudrillard's literary essays: his confrontation with Calvino, Styron, Ballard and Borges. Gane offers a coherent account of Baudrillard's theory of cultural ambience, and the culture of consumer society. And it provides an introduction to Baudrillard's fiction theory, and the analysis of transpolitical figures. The book also includes an interesting and provocative comparison of Baudrillard's powerful essay against the modernist Pompidou Centre in Paris and Frederic Jameson's analysis of the Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles. An interpretation of this encounter leads to the presentation of a very different Baudrillard from that which figures in contemporary debates on postmodernism.

Author : Richard G. Smith
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748642919
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baudrillard Dictionary written by Richard G. Smith and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first dictionary dedicated to the work of Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007). It explains and contextualises more than a hundred key concepts, terms, influences and topics within his thought. An essential reference for students and scholars of Baudrillard, it also serves as an authoritative overview of how his ideas have shaped a broad range of disciplines, from art, architecture, film and photography to sociology, philosophy, human geography, media studies and cultural studies. The entries are written by 35 leading Baudrillard specialists from around the world, including Rex Butler, Mike Gane, Gary Genosko, Victoria Grace, Diane Rubenstein and Andrew Wernick.

Author : Francesco Proto
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317495586
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baudrillard for Architects written by Francesco Proto and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marginalized due to the deployment of both a highly specialized jargon and a novel stylistic approach meant to upset established norms and conventions, Baudrillard's thought has suffered from the lack of an accessible, consistent and comprehensive exposition able to make it relevant to diverse contemporary disciplines. As a result, its impact on architecture has always been confined to academia. By presenting an introductory but in-depth formalization of Baudrillard's interest in architecture and related fields, this book makes intelligible his philosophical premises thus showing, through the prism of architecture, their relevance and persuasiveness today. Key concepts such as the object system, the code, simulation, hyperreality and precession, to name a few, are addressed in the light of the specially reconceptualized key construct of ambience, thus emphasizing how the mutual concerns of architecture, urban studies and cultural studies provide a fertile ground for debate. Such an approach, which focuses on the contradictions inherent in contemporary society from the vantage point of Baudrillard's original involvement in architectural analysis, philosophy and criticism, is one which students, practitioners and scholars alike from as diverse disciplines as architecture, interior design and urban studies – but also fine art, anthropology, sociology, economics, human geography, social psychology and cultural studies to start with – will benefit from immensely.

Author : Nicholas Zurbrugg, B.A, D.Phil
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9781446230572
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jean Baudrillard, Art and Artefact written by Nicholas Zurbrugg, B.A, D.Phil and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1997-11-14 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bookoffers a major reappraisal of Jean Baudrillard's thoughts on the image, radical illusion and media culture. Here for the first time, through a number of highly accessible interviews and recent essays, Baudrillard introduces what he calls the stunning clarity' of the photographic, and fascinatingly outlines his present thoughts on urban reality, aesthetics, virtual reality and new media technologies, in the light of his practice as a photographer. The book is illustrated with eight colour plates of Baudrillard's photographs and includes a number of provocative and illuminating responses to his recent writings from noted Baudrillard scholars. It also includes a definitive bibliography of critical responses to Baudrillard's writings on media culture, art and photography.

Author : Gary Genosko
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134655878
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book McLuhan and Baudrillard written by Gary Genosko and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gary Genosko's timely study traces McLuhan's influence on the work of Jean Baudrillard, arguing that McLuhan's ideas have been far more influential than hitherto imagined in the development of postmodern theory. Genosko explores how McLuhan's ideas persist and are distorted through Baudrillard's work. He argues that it is through Baudrillard's influence that McLuhanism has had its greatest impact on contemporary cultural thought and practice.

Author : Rex Butler
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1446265129
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jean Baudrillard written by Rex Butler and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1999-02-24 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book goes beyond Baudrillard′s writings on consumer objects, the Gulf War and America, to identify the fundamental logic that underpins his writings. It does this through a series of close readings of his main texts, paying particular attention to the form and internal coherence of his arguments. The book is written for all those who want a general introduction to Baudrillard′s work, and will also appeal to those readers who are interested in social theory, but who have not yet taken Baudrillard seriously.

Author : David B. Clarke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134040717
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jean Baudrillard written by David B. Clarke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing two previously unpublished essays by Jean Baudrillard, this book provides a series of dazzling demonstrations of the power of Baudrillard’s thought from many of his most accomplished commentators.

Author : Paul Hegarty
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441121501
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jean Baudrillard: Live Theory written by Paul Hegarty and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Baudrillard's work on how contemporary society is dominated by the mass media has become extraordinarily influential. He is notorious for arguing that there is no real world, only simulations which have altered what events mean, and that only violent symbolic exchange can prevent the world becoming a total simulation. An ideal introduction to this most singular cultural critic and philosopher, Jean Baudrillard: live theory offers a comprehensive, critical account of Baudrillard's unsettling, visionary and often prescient work. Baudrillard's relation to a range of theorists as diverse as Nietzsche, Marx, McLuhan, Foucault and Lyotard is explained, and the impact of his thought on contemporary politics, popular culture and art is analyzed. Finally, in the new interview included here, Baudrillard outlines his own position and responds to his critics.

Author : Richard G. Smith
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474417809
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jean Baudrillard: The Disappearance of Culture written by Richard G. Smith and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published between 1968 and 2009, this collection of 25 pieces includes six interviews translated into English for the first time and a new transcription of a Q&A session with Baudrillard following a lecture he gave in London in 1994. The guiding theme of the collection is Baudrillard's engagement with culture. The implications of the implosion of Western culture are dissected and documented in the rich range of material included here.

Author : Brian Gogan
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 080933626X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jean Baudrillard written by Brian Gogan and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Baudrillard has been studied as sociologist, philosopher, cultural theorist, political commentator, and photographer. Brian Gogan establishes him as a rhetorician, demonstrating how the histories, traditions, and practices of rhetoric prove central to his use of language. In addition to Baudrillard’s standard works, Gogan examines many of the scholar’s lesser-known writings that have never been analyzed by rhetoricians, and this more comprehensive approach presents fresh perspectives on Baudrillard’s work as a whole. Gogan examines both the theorist and his rhetoric, combining these two lines of inquiry in ways that allow for provocative insights. Part one of the book explains Baudrillard’s theory as compatible with the histories and traditions of rhetoric, outlining his novel understanding of rhetorical invention as involving thought, discourse, and perception. Part two evaluates Baudrillard’s work in terms of a perception of him—as an aphorist, an illusionist, an ignoramus, and an ironist. A biographical sketch and a critical review of the literature on Baudrillard and rhetoric round out the study. This book makes the French theorist’s complex concepts understandable and relates them to the work of important thinkers, providing a thorough and accessible introduction to Baudrillard’s ideas.