Simulacra and Simulation

Sheila Faria Glaser (Translator), Jean Baudrillard

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Author
Sheila Faria Glaser (Translator), Jean Baudrillard
Publish Date
1994-12-22
Book Type
Non-Book Item
Publisher Name
University of Michigan Press
Subject
Western Philosophy
Number of Pages
164
ISBN-10
0472065211
ISBN-13
9780472065219
Edition
2
SKU
9780472065219

Description

This book marked the author's first important step toward theorizing the postmodern condition. Moving away from Marxist and Freudian approaches, he develops here a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notions of cultural production with notions of cultural expenditure, using the concepts of the simulacrum (the copy without an original) and simulation to address the concept of mass reproduction and reproduciability characteristic of electronic media culture.