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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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This review is from: The Ecstasy of Communication (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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A stimulating book,
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This review is from: The Ecstasy of Communication (Paperback)
A major contribution to the theory of postmodernity written in a mentally stimulating way.
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This review is from: The Ecstasy of Communication (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 (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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painfully boring...,
By T. Mccollum - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Ecstasy of Communication (Paperback)
This is a rambling and painfully dull essay on the alienation induced by communications media and technology. It reads like he scribbled this one out over a couple of double lattes.128 pages of endless pontificating. Luckily it is a mercifully short read, as he uses the usual sophomoric trick of large font and small pages to pad this thing into book length. My advice is to save the $10 and go to one of those cafes that have the house journals that people write in, and read some of those instead...that will be much more interesting and you won't feel so disconnected from society like Baudrillard. |
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