Simulacra and Simulation

Jean Baudrillard, Sheila Faria Glaser

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Michigan University Press
31 December 1994

Philosophy; History of Western philosophy; Philosophy of mind

Series: The Body in Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

The first full-length translation in English of an essential work of postmodernism.

The 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 expenditure. Baudrillard 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 culture. Baudrillard'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.

By: Jean Baudrillard
Translated by: Sheila Faria Glaser
Imprint: Michigan University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 218g
ISBN: 9780472065219
ISBN 10: 0472065211
Series: The Body in Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 31 December 1994
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sheila Glaser is an editor at Artforum magazine.