Baudrillard and signs : signification ablaze / / Gary Genosko
Pubbl/distr/stampa
London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1994
ISBN
9781134831142
1134831145
9781280325472
128032547X
9781134831159
1134831153
9780203296660
0203296664
Edizione
[1st ed.]
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.