Simulacra and Simulation

The first full-length translation in English of an essential work of publication of ""Simulacra et Simulation"" in 1981 marked Jean Baudrillard's first important step toward theorizing the postmodern. Moving away from the Marxist/Freudian approaches that had concerned him earlier, Baudrillard developed in this book a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notions of cultural production with notions of cultural uses the concepts of the simulacra - the copy without an original - and simulation. These terms are crucial to an understanding of the postmodern, to the extent that they address the concept of mass reproduction and reproduceability that characterizes our electronic media 's book represents a unique and original effort to rethink cultural theory from the perspective of a new concept of cultural materialism, one that radically redefines postmodern formulations of the body.Author: Jean Baudrillard,author Contributors: Jean Baudrillard,author Binding: paperback Number Of Pages: 176 Publication Date: Release Date: Languages: English,Published,English,Original Language,Englis Edition: 1 Published/Release Date: 22 Dec 1994 Format: Paperback / softback Publisher/Studio/Brand: The University of Michigan Press Author/Director/Artist: Jean Baudrillard Dimension (cm): 229x133x18 mm Package Dimension (cm): 15x228x131 mm Item Weight (g): 1050 Package Weight (g): 209