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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779966203321

Autore

Genosko Gary

Titolo

Baudrillard and signs : signification ablaze / / Gary Genosko

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1994

ISBN

1-134-83114-5

1-280-32547-X

1-134-83115-3

0-203-29666-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 p.)

Disciplina

302.2

Soggetti

Semiotics

Structuralism

France Intellectual life 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [172]-188) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Signs must burn!; Bar games; The table of conversions; Bar gains: neither Saussure nor Lacan; Simulation and semiosis; The metaphysics of the referent; The model of simulation as a condensed history of modern semiotic debate on the referent; A Peircean turn; Deleuze and Guattari in the polysemiotic field; A Peircean return; Varieties of symbolic exchange; Juste pour rire; Anagrammatic dispersion; Lyotard and the primitive hippies; The weak and the dead; Hostage anti-value; Pataphysical gestures

Empty signs and extravagant objects Salt, sand and simulation; Exotes like us; Wily props and vengeful objects; Conclusion: Signs of Baudrillard; Notes; Bibliography; Name index; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

This book relates Baudrillard's work to contemporary social r4248y.  The author traces the connections between Baudrillard's work and Marx and Marxism; Lefebvre and structuralist method; the works of Saussure, Bataille, Barthes, Foucault, Mauss, Peirce, McLuhan and the Prague School.  The result is an authoritative and stimulating account of Baudrillard and modern social theory.