Jean Baudrillard: The Disappearance of Culture (eBook, ePUB)

Uncollected Interviews
Redaktion: Smith, Richard G.; Clarke, David B.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474417808
• Artikelnr.: 50404158

Autorenporträt

Richard G. Smith is Associate Professor in Human Geography at Swansea University. He is co-editor of Jean Baudrillard: Fatal Theories (Routledge, 2009); The Baudrillard Dictionary (EUP, 2010); Jean Baudrillard: From Hyperreality to Disappearance, Uncollected Interviews (EUP, 2015); and, Jean Baudrillard: The Disappearance of Culture, Uncollected Interviews (EUP, 2017). David B. Clarke is Professor of Human Geography at Swansea University. He is co-editor of Jean Baudrillard: Fatal Theories (Routledge, 2009) and The Consumption Reader (Routledge, 2003). He is the author of The Consumer Society and the Postmodern City (Routledge, 2003).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Baudrillard Unplugged
Interview 1: Is Transgression a Mode of Political Action?
Interview 2: Dropping Out of History
Interview 3: Catastrophic, but Not Serious
Interview 4: The Apathy of the Masses
Interview 5: The Transparency of Kitsch
Interview 6: Baudrillard Shrugs: Terrorism and the Media
Interview 7: Strange World
Interview 8: The Ex-termination of the Real
Interview 9: La Commedia dell'Arte
Interview 10: From Popular Culture to Mass Culture
Interview 11: The Ecstasy of Photography
Interview 12: Baudrillard's List
Interview 13: Viral and Metaleptic
Interview 14: The Homeopathic Disappearance of Architecture
Interview 15: For Illusion
Interview 16: Impossible and Unexchangeable
Interview 17: The Art of Disappearance
Interview 18: Solutions for a Post-technological Society
Interview 19: Apropos of Utopie
Interview 20: The Murder of Reality
Interview 21: Alterity as Fate
Interview 22: Artificiality and Seduction
Interview 23: The Roots of Evil
Interview 24: The Mirror of Photojournalism
Interview 25: Hoping to Resolve the Irresolvable
Select Journal Special/Theme Issues/Sections on Jean Baudrillard in English
Select Books on Jean Baudrillard in English
Name Index
Subject Index