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The Ecstasy of Communication
Jean Baudrillard
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Paperback. Translator(s): Schutze, Bernard; Schutze, Caroline. Series: Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 7. Weight in Grams: 152.
Baudrillard's essential crib-book, lexicon, and companion piece to any and all of his books and a prescient portrait of our contemporary condition. The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost its meaning. -from The Ecstasy of Communication First published in France in 1987, The Ecstasy of Communication was Baudrillard's summarization of his work for a postdoctoral degree at the Sorbonne: a dense, poetically crystalline essay that ... Read more
Baudrillard's essential crib-book, lexicon, and companion piece to any and all of his books and a prescient portrait of our contemporary condition. The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost its meaning. -from The Ecstasy of Communication First published in France in 1987, The Ecstasy of Communication was Baudrillard's summarization of his work for a postdoctoral degree at the Sorbonne: a dense, poetically crystalline essay that ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Autonomedia United States
Number of pages
88
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents
Condition
New
Weight
151g
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781584350576
SKU
V9781584350576
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About Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) was a philosopher, sociologist, cultural critic, and theorist of postmodernity who challenged all existing theories of contemporary society with humor and precision. An outsider in the French intellectual establishment, he was internationally renowned as a twenty-first century visionary, reporter, and provocateur. Jean-Louis Violeau is a sociologist and researcher at the Architecture-Culture-Societe laboratory of the Ecole ... Read more
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