Baudrillard Now

Current Perspectives in Baudrillard Studies
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-7456-4708-1
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 251 g

Reihe: Polity Theory Now

The writings of Jean Baudrillard have dramatically altered the face of critical theory and promise to pose challenges well into the 21st century. His work on simulation, media, the status of the image, the system of objects, hyperreality, and information technology continues to influence intellectual work in a diverse set of fields. This volume uniquely provides overviews of Baudrillards career while also simultaneously including examples of current works on and with Baudrillard that engage some of the many and varied ways Baudrillard's work is being addressed, deployed, and critiqued in the present. As such, it offers chapters useful to the novice and the well-versed in critical theory and Baudrillard Studies alike. Contributors to the volume include John Armitage, John Beck, Ryan Bishop, Doug Kellner, John Phillips and Mark Poster.

No less controversial today than he was in the past, Baudrillard continues to divide intellectuals and academicians, an issue this volume addresses by re-engaging the writing itself without falling into either simplistic dismissal or solipsistic cheerleading, but rather by taking the fecundity operative in the thought and meeting its consistent challenge. Baudrillard Now provokes sustained interaction with one of philosophy?s most important, provocative and stimulating thinkers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bishop, Ryan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medienphilosophie, Medienethik, Medienrecht
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors vii

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: The End of Baudrillard and Beyond
Ryan Bishop 1

1 Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007): A Critical Overview
Douglas Kellner 17

2 Baudrillard and the Evil Genius
Ryan Bishop and John Phillips 28

3 Baudrillard, Death, and Cold War Theory
Ryan Bishop 47

4 Swan's Way: Care of Self in the Hyperreal
Mark Poster 72

5 Et in Arizona Ego: Baudrillard on the Planet of the Apes
John Beck 100

6 Pursuit in Paris
John Armitage 116

7 What is a Tank?
Ryan Bishop and John Phillips 136

8 Some Reflections on Baudrillard's "On Disappearance"
Douglas Kellner 154

9 Humanity's End
John Phillips 159

Index 172

Über Autor(innen)

Ryan Bishop is professor of global arts and politics at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.