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This book marks an important evolution in Jean Baudrillard's thought as he leaves behind his older and better-known concept of the "simulacrum" and tackles the new problem of digital technology acquiring organicity. The resulting world of cold communication and its indifferent alterity, seduction, metamorphoses, metastases, and transparency requires a new form of response. Writing in the shadow of Marshall McLuhan, Baudrillard insists that the content of communication is completely without meaning: the only thing that is communicated is communication itself. He sees the masses writhing in an orgiastic ecstasy of communications. Baudrillard navigates the Object's maelstrom with the euphoria of the astronaut reentering Earth's atmosphere with no possibility of assistance from Mission Control.
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Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) was a philosopher, sociologist, cultural critic, and theorist of postmodernity who challenged all existing theories of contemporary society with humor and precision. An outsider in the French intellectual establishment, he was internationally renowned as a twenty-first century visionary, reporter, and provocateur.
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Ecstasy of Communication,
This review is from: The Ecstasy of Communication (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents) (Paperback)
I recently embarked on an attempt to read all the major post-modernist works that are actually readable. It's proved harder than I thought to even find any. Luckily, this one is, for the most part, coherent as Baudrillard discusses how 'reality' has become eclipsed in favour of meaningless signs: nothing meaning much any more. Heavy though that sounds- and indeed parts of it are obtuse- the translation is, in general, clear and the book clocks in at a concise 100 or so pages. In short, if you're interested in the effects of the pop culture and its seemingly superficial hyperspeed, I'd definitely recommend checking it out. Plus it fits nicely in a leather jacket pocket, for the pretentious bohemians amongst you.
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nothing you wouldn't hear from a perceptive friend,
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This review is from: The Ecstasy of Communication (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents) (Paperback)
"Baudrillard". A name pulled out in many a student debate I'm sure. As with a lot of his writing this falls into a 'reflections' category. Elipitical is perhaps the word to use with Baudrillard; you get out of him what you want to read: "Isn't (post)modern life painful and meaningless". I think a lot of people who become interested in the post-isms thing start off with Baudrillard because his writing employs a style (necessarily, I'm sure some would say) that is built of the same torrent of sickly, semi-hysterical stuff as the postmodernity he describes. Baudrillard seems quick to point out the negative and forget about anything positive, he seems something of an intellectual cul de sac. This book is ok, a good starting place if you are interested in Baudrillard, but after reading this small book, unless you really are intrigued, I wouldn't bother going much further. Perhaps with the exception of America, again in his 'reflections' mode.
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Modern Philo Par Excellence,
By R. Williams "code slubber" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Ecstasy of Communication (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents) (Paperback)
This book is a riot and a total joy to read. Baudrillard skitters over all the modern fixtures (Nietzsche, Freud, Marx, Derrida) citing no one, instead whipping together confections that result in immediate addiction to his prosaic bakery. All his books glow like embers after being read, but this one in particular sews up a lot of his interests: modern existence enslaved by the eye, history as a mass recapitulation of fantasy put on by nostalgia, the secret as already always revealed.
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This is a bad translation,
By amanda - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Ecstasy of Communication (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents) (Paperback)
I have just finished writing my undergraduate dissertation and Baudrillard's writing, and particularly this essay, figures prominently in my argument. It is a really interesting essay, which is completely ruined by this absolutely god-awful translation. Don't go anywhere near it! Get it translated by John Johnston. I got it from 'The Anti-Aesthetic - Essays on Postmodern Culture', edited by Hal Foster.
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A stimulating book,
By theodore karidakis - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Ecstasy of Communication (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents) (Paperback)
A major contribution to the theory of postmodernity written in a mentally stimulating way.
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