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Jean Baudrillard
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Paperback. A collection of journalistic essays that addresses subjects ranging from those already established as the author's trademark (virtual reality, Disney, television) to more unusual topics such as the Western intervention in Bosnia, children's rights, Holocaust revisionism, AIDS, the Rushdie "fatwa," Formula One racing, and, genetic cloning. Series: Radical Thinkers. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HBLW; HPS; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 19. Weight in Grams: 264.
'Watching the president's Christmas message produces this necropolar, white-mass sensation. Seeing the video broadcast of the Christmas service in the cathedral itself, with these pathetic screens and the young worshippers slumped around them here and there, you tell yourself that God and religion deserved better. Deserved to die, yes, but not this. However, watching the presidential figure and his sonorous inanity, you tell yourself that here at least you got what you deserved. Chirac is useless - that goes without saying - but so are we all ... Uselessness of this kind has no origin: it exists immediately, reciprocally; like ... Read more
'Watching the president's Christmas message produces this necropolar, white-mass sensation. Seeing the video broadcast of the Christmas service in the cathedral itself, with these pathetic screens and the young worshippers slumped around them here and there, you tell yourself that God and religion deserved better. Deserved to die, yes, but not this. However, watching the presidential figure and his sonorous inanity, you tell yourself that here at least you got what you deserved. Chirac is useless - that goes without saying - but so are we all ... Uselessness of this kind has no origin: it exists immediately, reciprocally; like ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Radical Thinkers
Condition
New
Weight
263g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781681558
SKU
V9781781681558
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About Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) began teaching sociology at the Université de Paris-X in 1966. He retired from academia in 1987 to write books and travel until his death in 2007.
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