Jean Baudrillard: Against BanalityRoutledge, 12 thg 11, 2007 - 222 trang This uniquely engaging introduction to Jean Baudrillard’s controversial writings covers his entire career focusing on Baudrillard’s central, but little understood, notion of symbolic exchange. Through the clarification of this key term a very different Baudrillard emerges: not the nihilistic postmodernist and enemy of Marxism and Feminism that his critics have constructed, but a thinker immersed in the social world and passionately committed to a radical theorizsation of it. Above all Baudrillard sought symbolic spaces, spaces where we might all, if only temporarily, shake off the system of social control. His writing sought to challenge and defy the system. By erasing our ‘liberated’ identities and suspending the pressures to compete, perform, consume and hate that the system induces, we might create spaces not of freedom, but of symbolic engagement and exchange. |
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Chapter The Break with Marxism 28 | |
Chapter Symbolic Exchange and Death 47 | |
Chapter Simulation and the End of the Social 70 | |
Chapter The Body Sexuality and Seduction 91 | |
Chapter Into the Fourth Order 107 | |
Chapter War Terrorism and 911 133 | |
Chapter Subjectivity Identity and Agency 150 | |
Conclusion 168 | |
Bibliography 186 | |