Baudrillard and the Media: A Critical Introduction

Acknowledgements

Introduction: 'There is No Theory of the Media': Baudrillard and Media Studies

1. Television is Killing the Art of Symbolic Exchange: Baudrillard's Theory of Communication

2. To Play With Phantoms: The Evil Demon of the Simulacrum

3. Are Friends Electric?: Baudrillard's Critique of McLuhan

4. The Delirious Spectacle of the Non-Event

5. Shreds of War Rotting in the Desert

6. 'Total Screen': 9/11 and The Gulf War: Reloaded

7. 'The Matrix Has You': Virtuality and Social Control

8. 'The Saving Power': The 'Reflex Miracle' of Photography

Conclusion: 'Speculation to the Death': Baudrillard's Theoretical Violence

Notes

References

Index