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Simulacra and simulation / by Jean Baudrillard ; translated by Sheila Faria Glaser.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: 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
Uniform titles:
  • Simulacres et simulation. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 194 20
LOC classification:
  • BD236 .B3813 1994
Contents:
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.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction 194 B342 Available 33111006055509
Total holds: 0

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.

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