Simulacra and simulation / by Jean Baudrillard ; translated by Sheila Faria Glaser.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Body, in theoryPublication details: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1994.Description: 164 p. ; 23 cmISBN:- 0472065211 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0472095218 (alk. paper)
- 9780472065219
- Simulacres et simulation. English
- 194 20
- BD236 .B3813 1994
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | NonFiction | 194 B342 | Available | 33111006055509 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The first full-length translation in English of an essential work of postmodernist thought
Includes bibliographical references.
The precession of simulacra -- History: a retro scenario -- Holocaust -- The China Syndrome -- Apocalypse Now -- The Beaubourg effect: implosion and deterrence -- Hypermarket and hypercommodity -- The implosion of meaning in the media -- Absolute advertising, ground-zero advertising -- Clone story -- Holograms -- Crash -- Simulacra and science fiction -- The animals: territory and metamorphoses -- The remainder -- The spiraling cadaver -- Value's last tango -- On nihilism.