Baudrillard, Jean

The Ecstasy of Communication (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)

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ISBN 13:: 9781584350576
author:: Baudrillard, Jean
format:: Paperback
publisher:: MIT Press
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2012
Pages:: 128
Dimensions:: 15.2 x 0.6 x 22.9 cm
Genre:: Reference, Language, Communication
Condition:: New
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The Ecstasy of Communication by Jean Baudrillard is a dense and poetically crystalline essay that distills two decades of radical theory into an aphoristically eloquent exploration of contemporary alienation. First published in France in 1987, this text represents a pivotal moment in Baudrillard's work, summarizing his key ideas for a postdoctoral degree at the Sorbonne. Baudrillard's work here confronts and dispenses with influential thinkers such as Marshall McLuhan, Guy Debord, and Georges Bataille, offering a decisive description of what it means to be "wired" in our modern world. The result is an anti-manifesto that examines the consequences of ceaseless communication and information, where traditional distinctions between subject and object, knowledge and information, have become increasingly blurred. This book serves as a companion piece to Baudrillard's other works, providing a concise overview of his key ideas and setting the stage for his later theories on the "obscene" world of postmodernity.

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