Baudrillard Now: Current Perspectives in Baudrillard StudiesISBN: 978-0-7456-4708-1
Paperback
200 pages
August 2009, Polity
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The writings of Jean Baudrillard have dramatically altered the face
of critical theory and promise to pose challenges well into the
21st century. His work on simulation, media, the status of the
image, the system of objects, hyperreality, and information
technology continues to influence intellectual work in a diverse
set of fields. This volume uniquely provides overviews of
Baudrillards career while also simultaneously including examples of
current works on and with Baudrillard that engage some of the many
and varied ways Baudrillard's work is being addressed, deployed,
and critiqued in the present. As such, it offers chapters useful to
the novice and the well-versed in critical theory and Baudrillard
Studies alike. Contributors to the volume include John Armitage,
John Beck, Ryan Bishop, Doug Kellner, John Phillips and Mark
Poster.
No less controversial today than he was in the past, Baudrillard continues to divide intellectuals and academicians, an issue this volume addresses by re-engaging the writing itself without falling into either simplistic dismissal or solipsistic cheerleading, but rather by taking the fecundity operative in the thought and meeting its consistent challenge. Baudrillard Now provokes sustained interaction with one of philosophy?s most important, provocative and stimulating thinkers.
No less controversial today than he was in the past, Baudrillard continues to divide intellectuals and academicians, an issue this volume addresses by re-engaging the writing itself without falling into either simplistic dismissal or solipsistic cheerleading, but rather by taking the fecundity operative in the thought and meeting its consistent challenge. Baudrillard Now provokes sustained interaction with one of philosophy?s most important, provocative and stimulating thinkers.