The System of Objects (Radical Thinke...
Jean BaudrillardA cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society, The System of Objects is a tour de force – a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all the live ideas of the day....
pstrongUntil September 11 we had had no symbolic event on a world scale that marked a setback for globalization itself./strong/pBaudrillard sees the power of the terrorists as lying in the symbolism of slaughter – not merely the rea...
Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, I...
Jean BaudrillardThe first full-length translation in English of an essential work of postmodernist thought
The images from Abu Ghraib are as murderous for America as those of the World Trade Center in flames. The whole West is contained in the burst of sadistic laughter of the American soldiers, as it is behind the construction of the Isra...
The System of Objects is a tour de force—a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all the live ideas of the day. Pressing Freudian and Saussurean categories into the...
Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extre...
Jean BaudrillardThe renowned postmodernist philosopher’s tour-de-force contemplation of sex, technology, politics and disease in Western culture after the revolutionary ‘orgy’ of the 1960s.“The most important and original French thinker of th...