Physical Description
ix, 333 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction : Jean Baudrillard in the fin-de-millennium / Douglas Kellner
The system of objects and the commodification of everyday life : the early Baudrillard / Mark Gottdiener
The commodification of reality and the reality of commodification : Baudrillard, Debord, and postmodern theory / Steven Best
Critical theory and technoculture : Habermas and Baudrillard / Mark Poster
Semiotics, cybernetics, and the ecstasy of marketing communications / Kim Sawchuck
Fashion and signification in Baudrillard / Efrat Tseëlon
Fatal forms : toward a (neo) formal sociological theory of media culture / Joanthan S. Epstein and Margarete J. Epstein
Symbolic exchange in hyperreality / Deborah Cook
Capitalism and the code : a critique of Baudrillard's third order simulacrum / Sara Schoonmaker
Simulation : the highest stage of capitalism? / James Der Derian
Aesthetic production and cultural politics : Baudrillard and contemporary art / Timothy W. Luke
Baudrillard, modernism, and postmodernism / Nicholas Zurbrugg
Valorizing "the feminine" while rejecting feminism? : Baudrillard's feminist provocations / A. Keith Goshorn
The drama of theory : vengeful objects and wily props / Gary Genosko
Baudrillard, time, and the end / William Bogard.
Other Authors/Editors
Kellner, Douglas, 1943-
ISBN
1557864659
9781557864659 (HB : acid-free paper)
1557864667 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
9781557864666 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Notes
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : Jean Baudrillard in the fin-de-millennium / Douglas Kellner -- The system of objects and the commodification of everyday life : the early Baudrillard / Mark Gottdiener -- The commodification of reality and the reality of commodification : Baudrillard, Debord, and postmodern theory / Steven Best -- Critical theory and technoculture : Habermas and Baudrillard / Mark Poster -- Semiotics, cybernetics, and the ecstasy of marketing communications / Kim Sawchuck -- Fashion and signification in Baudrillard / Efrat Tseëlon -- Fatal forms : toward a (neo) formal sociological theory of media culture / Joanthan S. Epstein and Margarete J. Epstein -- Symbolic exchange in hyperreality / Deborah Cook -- Capitalism and the code : a critique of Baudrillard's third order simulacrum / Sara Schoonmaker -- Simulation : the highest stage of capitalism? / James Der Derian -- Aesthetic production and cultural politics : Baudrillard and contemporary art / Timothy W. Luke -- Baudrillard, modernism, and postmodernism / Nicholas Zurbrugg -- Valorizing "the feminine" while rejecting feminism? : Baudrillard's feminist provocations / A. Keith Goshorn -- The drama of theory : vengeful objects and wily props / Gary Genosko -- Baudrillard, time, and the end / William Bogard.
