Baudrillard's Bestiary: Baudrillard and Culture

ISBN-13: 9780415063074 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 192 str.

Mike Gane;Gane Mike

Opis

This book provides an introduction to Baudrillard's cultural theory: the conception of modernity and the complex process of simulation. It examines his literary essays: his confrontation with Calvino, Styron, Ballard and Borges. It offers a coherent account of Baudrillard's theory of cultural ambience, and the culture of consumer society. It provides an introduction to Baudrillard's fiction theory, and the analysis of transpolitical figures.

Recenzje

`In this committed and important study, Mike Gane makes a case for Baudrillard as an important cultural critic ...' - The Sunday Times

Spis treści

1 Introduction: the double infidelity 2 From literary criticism to fiction-theory 3 Modern ambience of objects 4 Technology and culture: Baudrillard’s critique of McLuhan and Lefebvre 5 The rigours of consumer society 6 From production to reproduction 7 Modernity, simulation, and the hyperreal 8 Fashion, the body, sexuality, and death 9 Anagrammatic resolutions 10 Transpolitical objects 11 From the Beaubourg to the Bonaventure Hotel 12 Conclusion: the other Baudrillard

O autorze

Mike Gane is Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences at Loughborough University.