Baudrillard and the Media: A Critical IntroductionISBN: 978-0-7456-3072-4
Hardcover
224 pages
January 2006, Polity
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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‘Finally we have a book-length study of Baudrillard’s
writing from the vantage point of media studies. Merrin is an
excellent guide to what is arguably the central thread in the work
of the theorist of simulations.’ – Mark Poster,
University of California, Irvine
‘William Merrin has written a significant and original book that will transform conventional understandings of Jean Baudrillard’s alleged "postmodern" media theory. His radical Durkheimian interpretation, critique and conclusions will be seriously debated in media and communications studies and deserved so. Baudrillard and the Media is essential reading for anyone interested in Baudrillard or contemporary theories of media and simulation, symbolic exchange and semiotics.’ –John Armitage, Northumbria University