Baudrillard's Bestiary
Baudrillard and Culture
Mike Gane(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
Published on 3. October 1991
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Hardback
192 pages
978-0-415-06306-7 (ISBN)
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Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 138 mm
Width: 216 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-415-06306-7 (9780415063067)
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Content
Acknowledgements, 1. Introduction: the double infidelity, 2. From literary criticism to fiction-theory, 3. Modern ambience of objects, 4. Technology and culture, 5. The rigours of consumer society, 6. From production to reproduction, 7. Modernity, simulation and the hyperreal, 8. Fashion, the body and death, 9. Anagrammatic resolutions, 10. Transpolitical objects, 11. From the beaubourg to the Bonaventure Hotel, 12. Conclusion: the other Baudrillard, Notes, Bibliography, Index