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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454669103321

Autore

Gane Mike

Titolo

Baudrillard's Bestiary [[electronic resource] ] : Baudrillard and Culture

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Routledge, 1991

ISBN

1-134-92390-2

0-203-31575-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Disciplina

306.01

306/.01

Soggetti

Baudrillard, Jean

Culture

History

Sociology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the double infidelity; From literary criticism to fiction-theory; Modern ambience of objects; Technology and culture: Baudrillard's critique of McLuhan and Lefebvre; The rigours of consumer society; From production to reproduction; Modernity, simulation, and the hyperreal; Fashion, the body, sexuality, and death; Anagrammatic resolutions; Transpolitical objects; From the Beaubourg to the Bonaventure Hotel; Conclusion: the other Baudrillard; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Drawing on several of Baudrillard's key writings which are still only available in French, Gane provides us with the essential guide to Baudrillard as cultural critic.