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Simulacra and Simulation

Author	: Jean Baudrillard
Publisher	: University of Michigan Press
Release Date	: 1994
ISBN 10	: 0472065211
Pages	: 164 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (11 users)

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Download or read book Simulacra and Simulation written by Jean Baudrillard and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Develops a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notions of cultural production with notions of cultural expenditure. This book represents an effort to rethink cultural theory from the perspective of a concept of cultural materialism, one that radically redefines postmodern formulations of the body.

Drama + Theory

Author	: Peter Buse
Publisher	: Manchester University Press
Release Date	: 2001
ISBN 10	: 0719057221
Pages	: 204 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (21 users)

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Download or read book Drama + Theory written by Peter Buse and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Buse illuminates the relationship between modern British drama and contemporary critical and cultural theory. He demonstrates how theory allows fresh insights into familiar drama, pairing well-known plays with classic theory texts. The theoretical text is more than applied to the dramatic text, instead Buse shows how they reflect on each other. Drama + Theory provides not only provides new interpretations of popular plays, but of the theoretical texts as well.

Theory for Religious Studies

Author	: William E. Deal
Publisher	: Psychology Press
Release Date	: 2004
ISBN 10	: 0415966388
Pages	: 168 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (88 users)

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Download or read book Theory for Religious Studies written by William E. Deal and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Theory for Religious Studies' takes major theoretical writers in the humanities & social sciences, & explains their relevance to the study of religion.

The Jean Baudrillard Reader

Author	: Steve Redhead
Publisher	: Columbia University Press
Release Date	: 2008
ISBN 10	: 0231146132
Pages	: 226 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (32 users)

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Download or read book The Jean Baudrillard Reader written by Steve Redhead and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) was a controversial social and cultural theorist known for his trenchant analyses of media and technological communication. Belonging to the generation of French thinkers that included Gilles Deleuze, Jean-François Lyotard, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Lacan, Baudrillard has at times been vilified by his detractors, but the influence of his work on critical thought and pop culture is impossible to deny (many might recognize his name from The Matrix movies, which claimed to be based on the French theorist's ideas). Steve Redhead takes a fresh look at Baudrillard in relation to the intellectual and political climates in which he wrote. Baudrillard sought to produce a theory of modernity, but the modern world of the 1950s was radically different from the reality of the early twenty-first century. Beginning with Baudrillard's initial publications in the 1960s and concluding with his writings on 9/11 and Abu Ghraib, Redhead guides the reader through Baudrillard's difficult texts and unorthodox views on current issues. He also proposes an original theory of Baudrillard's relation to postmodernism, presenting the theorist's work as "non-postmodernist," after Bruno Latour's concept of "non-modernity." Each section of the Reader includes an extract from one of Baudrillard's writings, prefaced by a short bibliographical introduction that places the piece in context and puts the debate surrounding the theorist into sharp perspective. The conflict over Baudrillard's legacy stems largely from the fact that a comprehensive selection of his writings has yet to be translated and collected into one volume. The Jean Baudrillard Reader provides an expansive and much-needed portrait of the critic's resonant work.

Simulations

Author	: Jean Baudrillard
Publisher	: Semiotext
Release Date	: 1983
ISBN 10	: STANFORD:36105040516499
Pages	: 159 pages
Rating	: 4.O/5 (36 users)

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Download or read book Simulations written by Jean Baudrillard and published by Semiotext. This book was released on 1983 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baudrillard's bewildering thesis, a bold extrapolation on Ferdinand de Saussure's general theory of general linguistics, is in fact a clinical vision of contemporary consumer societies where signs don't refer anymore to anything except themselves. They all are generated by the matrix. Simulations never existed as a book before it was "translated" into English. Actually it came from two different bookCovers written at different times by Jean Baudrillard. The first part of Simulations, and most provocative because it made a fiction of theory, was "The Procession of Simulacra." It had first been published in Simulacre et Simulations (1981). The second part, written much earlier and in a more academic mode, came from L'Echange Symbolique et la Mort (1977). It was a half-earnest, half-parodical attempt to "historicize" his own conceit by providing it with some kind of genealogy of the three orders of appearance: the Counterfeit attached to the classical period; Production for the industrial era; and Simulation, controlled by the code. It was Baudrillard's version of Foucault's Order of Things and his ironical commentary of the history of truth. The book opens on a quote from Ecclesiastes asserting flatly that "the simulacrum is true." It was certainly true in Baudrillard's book, but otherwise apocryphal.One of the most influential essays of the 20th century, Simulations was put together in 1983 in order to be published as the first little black book of Semiotext(e)'s new Foreign Agents Series. Baudrillard's bewildering thesis, a bold extrapolation on Ferdinand de Saussure's general theory of general linguistics, was in fact a clinical vision of contemporary consumer societies where signs don't refer anymore to anything except themselves. They all are generated by the matrix.In effect Baudrillard's essay (it quickly became a must to read both in the art world and in academe) was upholding the only reality there was in a world that keeps hiding the fact that it has none. Simulacrum is its own pure simulacrum and the simulacrum is true. In his celebrated analysis of Disneyland, Baudrillard demonstrates that its childish imaginary is neither true nor false, it is there to make us believe that the rest of America is real, when in fact America is a Disneyland. It is of the order of the hyper-real and of simulation. Few people at the time realized that Baudrillard's simulacrum itself wasn't a thing, but a "deterrence machine," just like Disneyland, meant to reveal the fact that the real is no longer real and illusion no longer possible. But the more impossible the illusion of reality becomes, the more impossible it is to separate true from false and the real from its artificial resurrection, the more panic-stricken the production of the real is.

Signs of Change

Author	: International Association for Philosophy and Literature. Meeting
Publisher	: SUNY Press
Release Date	: 1996-01-01
ISBN 10	: 0791424332
Pages	: 472 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (32 users)

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Download or read book Signs of Change written by International Association for Philosophy and Literature. Meeting and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of essays focusing on conventions of change in the arts, philosophy, and literature.

Jean Baudrillard: Live Theory

Author	: Paul Hegarty
Publisher	: A&C Black
Release Date	: 2004-03-01
ISBN 10	: 9781441121509
Pages	: 192 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (215 users)

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Download or read book Jean Baudrillard: Live Theory written by Paul Hegarty and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Baudrillard's work on how contemporary society is dominated by the mass media has become extraordinarily influential. He is notorious for arguing that there is no real world, only simulations which have altered what events mean, and that only violent symbolic exchange can prevent the world becoming a total simulation. An ideal introduction to this most singular cultural critic and philosopher, Jean Baudrillard: live theory offers a comprehensive, critical account of Baudrillard's unsettling, visionary and often prescient work. Baudrillard's relation to a range of theorists as diverse as Nietzsche, Marx, McLuhan, Foucault and Lyotard is explained, and the impact of his thought on contemporary politics, popular culture and art is analyzed. Finally, in the new interview included here, Baudrillard outlines his own position and responds to his critics.

Freedom of the Self

Author	: Jeffrey F. Keuss
Publisher	: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date	: 2010-07-01
ISBN 10	: 9781608991051
Pages	: 182 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (91 users)

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Download or read book Freedom of the Self written by Jeffrey F. Keuss and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom of the Self revitalizes the question of identity formation in a postmodern era through a deep reading of Christian life in relation to current trends seen in the Emergent and Missional church movements. By relocating deep identity formation as formed and released through a renewed appraisal of kenotic Christology coupled with readings of Continental philosophy (Derrida, Levinas, Marion) and popular culture, Keuss offers a bold vision for what it means to be truly human in contemporary society, as what he calls the "kenotic self." In addition to providing a robust reflection of philosophical and theological understanding of identity formation, from Aristotle and Augustine through to contemporary thinkers, Freedom of the Self suggests some tangible steps for the individual and the church in regard to how everyday concerns such as economics, literature, and urbanization can be part of living into the life of the kenotic self.

Jean Baudrilliard’s Simulation and Simulacra in Chuck Palahniuk’s 'Survivor'

Author	: Andreas Burger
Publisher	: GRIN Verlag
Release Date	: 2012-11-08
ISBN 10	: 9783656304975
Pages	: 12 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (49 users)

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Download or read book Jean Baudrilliard’s Simulation and Simulacra in Chuck Palahniuk’s 'Survivor' written by Andreas Burger and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Würzburg (Neuphilologisches Institut), course: Masters of Transgressive Fiction: Ellis, Palahniuk and McCarthy, language: English, abstract: In Ferdinand de Saussure’s terms a sign always consists of a signifier, arbitrarily connected to a signified. Jean Baudrillard used Saussure’s structuralistic ideas as a base for his concepts of simulation and simulacra, artificial signs that have lost their connection to a real signified. This idea is a central pillar of his postmodern theory of sign systems and their relation to the real. It is a complex and revolutionary theory discussed by some as unscientific and overly generalized (Kellner, 1). Even if this were the case it can be used in interpreting contemporary postmodern literature such as Chuck Palahniuk’s works. Survivor, Palahniuk’s second novel, is peppered with appearances of simulacra and the concepts of simulation and hyperreality. And Palahniuk himself gives a direct hint which shows that he knows about Baudrillard’s ideas. On page 88 of Survivor Tender Branson states: “The signifier outlasts the signified, the symbol the symbolized.” (Palahniuk, 88) In this term paper I will give an overview of where and how Palahniuk uses Baudrillard’s concepts of simulation and simulacra in Survivor and how the reader could interpret these concepts and appearances in the context of his critique of consumer society. Beforehand I will summarize Baudrillard’s main concepts which are related to Survivor.

Jean Baudrillard and Radical Education Theory

Author	: Kip Kline
Publisher	: BRILL
Release Date	: 2020-11-16
ISBN 10	: 9789004445376
Pages	: 88 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (453 users)

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Download or read book Jean Baudrillard and Radical Education Theory written by Kip Kline and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kline and Holland argue for a more prominent place in philosophical and theoretical work in education for Baudrillard’s ideas.

Locating Science Fiction

Author	: Andrew Milner
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Release Date	: 2012
ISBN 10	: 9781846318429
Pages	: 244 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (184 users)

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Download or read book Locating Science Fiction written by Andrew Milner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Locating Science Fiction, Andrew Milner looks at science fiction within the context of a host of other genres—including fantasy, romance, and the thriller—and explores the historical and geographic contexts of science fiction's emergence and development. Bringing in Raymond Williams's cultural materialism, Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of culture, and Franco Moretti's application of world systems to literary studies, he offers a persuasive, synthetic, and ultimately new mode of science fiction analysis that will become essential reading.

Jean Baudrillard

Author	: David B. Clarke
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2008-09-25
ISBN 10	: 9781134040711
Pages	: 224 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (47 users)

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Download or read book Jean Baudrillard written by David B. Clarke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Baudrillard was one of the most influential, radical, and visionary thinkers of our age. His ideas have had a profound bearing on countless fields, from art and politics to science and technology. Once hailed as the high priest of postmodernity, Baudrillard’s sophisticated theoretical analyses far surpass such simplistic caricatures. Bringing together Baudrillard’s most accomplished and perceptive commentators, this book assesses his legacy for the twenty-first century. It includes two outstanding essays by Baudrillard: a remarkable, previously unpublished work entitled ‘The vanishing point of communication,’ and one of Baudrillard’s final texts, ‘On disappearance’, a veritable tour de force that serves as a culmination of his theoretical trajectory and a provocation to a new generation of thinkers. Employing Baudrillard’s key concepts, such as simulation, disappearance, and symbolic exchange, and deploying his most radical strategies, such as escalation, seduction, and fatality, the volume’s contributors offer a series of thought-provoking analyses of everything from art to politics, and from laughter to terror. It will be essential reading for anyone concerned with the fate of the world in the new millennium.

The Routledge Companion to Historical Studies

Author	: Alun Munslow
Publisher	: Taylor & Francis
Release Date	: 2006
ISBN 10	: 0415385776
Pages	: 298 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (76 users)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Historical Studies written by Alun Munslow and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Historical Studies serves as a much needed critical introduction to the key issues, historians, philosophers and theories which have prompted the rethinking of history and its practice that has gathered pace since the 1990s.

Globalisation, Tourism and Simulacra

Author	: Kunphatu Sakwit
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2020-08-10
ISBN 10	: 9781000171440
Pages	: 152 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (714 users)

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Download or read book Globalisation, Tourism and Simulacra written by Kunphatu Sakwit and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws on the thought of Baudrillard to explore the effects of globalisation and tourism in a Thai context. Arguing that tourism does not necessarily erode local culture but that local culture can in fact be recreated through globalisation and tourism, the author employs studies of the Damnoen Saduk and Pattaya floating markets, showing them to be simulations of Thai culture that undergo changes of form, cultural content and activity, through various stages of representation. With a focus on the themes of the circulation of value and signs, the play of differences and orders of simulacra, this volume examines the extent to which Baudrillard’s theory can apply in a non-western context and in relation to tourism. A study of consumption, tourism and the relations between the global and the local, Globalisation, Tourism and Simulacra will appeal to scholars of sociology and geography with interests tourism, globalisation and social theory.

The Problem of Invented Religions

Author	: Steven J. Sutcliffe
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2017-08-15
ISBN 10	: 9781317373353
Pages	: 154 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (733 users)

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Download or read book The Problem of Invented Religions written by Steven J. Sutcliffe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invented religions have been described as modern religions which advertise their invented status and reject traditional strategies of authorisation. But what does it mean for a religious formation to be ‘made up’, and how might this status affect perceptions of its legitimacy or authenticity in wider society? Based in original fieldwork and archival sources, and in the secondary literature on invented and constructed formations, this volume explores the allure of, as well as the limits of, the invention of religion. Through a series of case studies, the contributors discuss strategies of mobilization and legitimation for new traditions at their point of emergence, as well as taking issue with simplistic interpretations of the phenomenon which neglect wider cultural and political dimensions. This book was originally published as a special issue of Culture and Religion.

The Theological Turn in Contemporary Gothic Fiction

Author	: Simon Marsden
Publisher	: Springer
Release Date	: 2018-09-21
ISBN 10	: 9783319965710
Pages	: 210 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (657 users)

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Download or read book The Theological Turn in Contemporary Gothic Fiction written by Simon Marsden and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines theological themes and resonances in post-1970 Gothic fiction. It argues that contemporary Gothic is not simply a secularised genre, but rather one that engages creatively – and often subversively – with theological texts and traditions. This creative engagement is reflected in Gothic fiction’s exploration of theological concepts including sin and evil, Christology and the messianic, resurrection, eschatology and apocalypse. Through readings of fiction by Gothic and horror writers including Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Straub, William Peter Blatty and others, this book demonstrates that Christianity continues to haunt the Gothic imagination and that the genre’s openness to the mysterious, numinous and non-rational opens space in which to explore religious beliefs and experiences less easily accessible to more overtly realist forms of representation. The book offers a new perspective on contemporary Gothic fiction that will be of interest to students and scholars of contemporary Gothic and of the relationship between literature and religion more generally.

Fallgirls

Author	: Ryan Ashley Caldwell
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2016-04-15
ISBN 10	: 9781317136668
Pages	: 240 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (366 users)

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Download or read book Fallgirls written by Ryan Ashley Caldwell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fallgirls provides an analysis of the abuses that took place at Abu Ghraib in terms of social theory, gender and power, based on first-hand participant-observations of the courts-martials of Lynndie England and Sabrina Harman. This book examines the trials themselves, including interactions with soldiers and defense teams, documents pertaining to the courts-martials, US government reports and photographs from Abu Ghraib, in order to challenge the view that the abuses were carried out at the hands of a few rogue soldiers. With a keen focus on gender and sexuality as prominent aspects of the abuses themselves, as well as the ways in which they were portrayed and tried, Fallgirls engages with modern feminist thought and contemporary social theory in order to analyse the manner in which the abuses were framed, whilst also exploring the various lived realities of Abu Ghraib by both prisoners and soldiers alike. Providing a unique perspective and a thorough theoretical examination of the events, their framing and depiction, this book will be of interest to sociologists, feminists, and social and political theorists concerned with cultural studies, political communication and gender and sexuality.