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The ecstasy of communication
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First published in France in 1987, The Ecstasy of Communication was Baudrillard’s summarization of his work for a postdoctoral degree at the Sorbonne : a dense, poetically crystalline essay that boiled down two decades of radical, provocative theory into an aphoristically eloquent swan song to twentieth-century alienation. Baudrillard’s quixotic effort to be recognized by(...)
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First published in France in 1987, The Ecstasy of Communication was Baudrillard’s summarization of his work for a postdoctoral degree at the Sorbonne : a dense, poetically crystalline essay that boiled down two decades of radical, provocative theory into an aphoristically eloquent swan song to twentieth-century alienation. Baudrillard’s quixotic effort to be recognized by(...)
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The ecstasy of communication
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First published in France in 1987, The Ecstasy of Communication was Baudrillard’s summarization of his work for a postdoctoral degree at the Sorbonne : a dense, poetically crystalline essay that boiled down two decades of radical, provocative theory into an aphoristically eloquent swan song to twentieth-century alienation. Baudrillard’s quixotic effort to be recognized by the French intellectual establishment may have been doomed to failure, but this text immediately became a pinnacle to his work, a mid-career assessment that looked both forward and back. By carefully distilling the most radical elements of his previous books, Baudrillard constructed the skeleton key to all of the work that was to come in the second half of his career, and set the scene for what he termed the “obscene”: a world in which alienation has been succeeded by ceaseless communication and information. The Ecstasy of Communication is a decisive, compact description of what it means to be “wired” in our braver-than-brave new world, where sexuality has been superseded by pornography, knowledge by information, hysteria by schizophrenia, subject by object, and violence by terror. The Ecstasy of Communication is an anti-manifesto that confronted and dispensed with such influences as Marshall McLuhan, Guy Debord, and Georges Bataille. It is an essential crib-book, lexicon, and companion piece to any and all of Baudrillard’s books. Twenty-five years after its original publication, it remains not only a prescient portrait of our contemporary condition, but also a dark mirror into which we have not yet dared to look.
The ecstasy of communication
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First published in France in 1987, The Ecstasy of Communication was Baudrillard’s summarization of his work for a postdoctoral degree at the Sorbonne : a dense, poetically crystalline essay that boiled down two decades of radical, provocative theory into an aphoristically eloquent swan song to twentieth-century alienation. Baudrillard’s quixotic effort to be recognized by the French intellectual establishment may have been doomed to failure, but this text immediately became a pinnacle to his work, a mid-career assessment that looked both forward and back. By carefully distilling the most radical elements of his previous books, Baudrillard constructed the skeleton key to all of the work that was to come in the second half of his career, and set the scene for what he termed the “obscene”: a world in which alienation has been succeeded by ceaseless communication and information. The Ecstasy of Communication is a decisive, compact description of what it means to be “wired” in our braver-than-brave new world, where sexuality has been superseded by pornography, knowledge by information, hysteria by schizophrenia, subject by object, and violence by terror. The Ecstasy of Communication is an anti-manifesto that confronted and dispensed with such influences as Marshall McLuhan, Guy Debord, and Georges Bataille. It is an essential crib-book, lexicon, and companion piece to any and all of Baudrillard’s books. Twenty-five years after its original publication, it remains not only a prescient portrait of our contemporary condition, but also a dark mirror into which we have not yet dared to look.
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November 2012
November 2012
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Critical Theory
Critical Theory
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The agony of power
The agony of power
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In these previously unpublished manuscripts written just before his death in 2007, Jean Baudrillard takes a last crack at the bewildering situation currently facing us as we exit the system of "domination" (based on alienation, revolt, revolution) and enter a world of generalized "hegemony" in which everyone becomes both hostage and accomplice of the global market. But in(...)
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In these previously unpublished manuscripts written just before his death in 2007, Jean Baudrillard takes a last crack at the bewildering situation currently facing us as we exit the system of "domination" (based on alienation, revolt, revolution) and enter a world of generalized "hegemony" in which everyone becomes both hostage and accomplice of the global market. But in(...)
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The agony of power
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In these previously unpublished manuscripts written just before his death in 2007, Jean Baudrillard takes a last crack at the bewildering situation currently facing us as we exit the system of "domination" (based on alienation, revolt, revolution) and enter a world of generalized "hegemony" in which everyone becomes both hostage and accomplice of the global market. But in the free-form market of political and sexual liberation, as the possibility of revolution (and our understanding of it) dissipates, Baudrillard sees the hegemonic process as only beginning. Once expelled, negativity returns from within ourselves as an antagonistic force — most vividly in the phenomenon of terrorism, but also as irony, mockery, and the symbolic liquidation of all human values. This is the dimension of hegemony marked by an unbridled circulation — of capital, goods, information, or manufactured history — that is bringing the very concept of exchange to an end and pushing capital beyond its limits : to the point at which it destroys the conditions of its own existence. In the system of hegemony, the alienated, the oppressed, and the colonized find themselves on the side of the system that holds them hostage. In this paradoxical moment in which history has turned to farce, domination itself may appear to have been a lesser evil.
The agony of power
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In these previously unpublished manuscripts written just before his death in 2007, Jean Baudrillard takes a last crack at the bewildering situation currently facing us as we exit the system of "domination" (based on alienation, revolt, revolution) and enter a world of generalized "hegemony" in which everyone becomes both hostage and accomplice of the global market. But in the free-form market of political and sexual liberation, as the possibility of revolution (and our understanding of it) dissipates, Baudrillard sees the hegemonic process as only beginning. Once expelled, negativity returns from within ourselves as an antagonistic force — most vividly in the phenomenon of terrorism, but also as irony, mockery, and the symbolic liquidation of all human values. This is the dimension of hegemony marked by an unbridled circulation — of capital, goods, information, or manufactured history — that is bringing the very concept of exchange to an end and pushing capital beyond its limits : to the point at which it destroys the conditions of its own existence. In the system of hegemony, the alienated, the oppressed, and the colonized find themselves on the side of the system that holds them hostage. In this paradoxical moment in which history has turned to farce, domination itself may appear to have been a lesser evil.
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November 2012
November 2012
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Critical Theory
Critical Theory
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Penseur aussi provocant que controversé, Jean Baudrillard a accordé une interview à artpress en 1985 à l'occasion de la sortie de son livre la Gauche divine dans lequel il développe une critique de la gauche béate,«extatique», qu'est le socialisme arrivé au pouvoir. Un an plus tard paraît America à propos duquel il précise que ses propos ne doivent pas être lus de façon(...)
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Penseur aussi provocant que controversé, Jean Baudrillard a accordé une interview à artpress en 1985 à l'occasion de la sortie de son livre la Gauche divine dans lequel il développe une critique de la gauche béate,«extatique», qu'est le socialisme arrivé au pouvoir. Un an plus tard paraît America à propos duquel il précise que ses propos ne doivent pas être lus de façon(...)
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Les grands entretiens d'artpress: Jean Baudrillard
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Penseur aussi provocant que controversé, Jean Baudrillard a accordé une interview à artpress en 1985 à l'occasion de la sortie de son livre la Gauche divine dans lequel il développe une critique de la gauche béate,«extatique», qu'est le socialisme arrivé au pouvoir. Un an plus tard paraît America à propos duquel il précise que ses propos ne doivent pas être lus de façon réaliste, l'Amérique étant pour lui une fiction. En 1996, il est à nouveau interrogé par Catherine Francblin suite à la parution dans Libération d'une tribune intitulée «Le complot de l'art» dans laquelle il attaque violemment l'art contemporain. Revenant sur sa critique générale de la culture élaborée de livre en livre, il met en cause la consommation de l'art en tant que signe et la disparition de l'objet dans sa forme concrète derrière les «discours autour ou les regards accumulés» qui créent une aura artificielle.
Les grands entretiens d'artpress: Jean Baudrillard
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Penseur aussi provocant que controversé, Jean Baudrillard a accordé une interview à artpress en 1985 à l'occasion de la sortie de son livre la Gauche divine dans lequel il développe une critique de la gauche béate,«extatique», qu'est le socialisme arrivé au pouvoir. Un an plus tard paraît America à propos duquel il précise que ses propos ne doivent pas être lus de façon réaliste, l'Amérique étant pour lui une fiction. En 1996, il est à nouveau interrogé par Catherine Francblin suite à la parution dans Libération d'une tribune intitulée «Le complot de l'art» dans laquelle il attaque violemment l'art contemporain. Revenant sur sa critique générale de la culture élaborée de livre en livre, il met en cause la consommation de l'art en tant que signe et la disparition de l'objet dans sa forme concrète derrière les «discours autour ou les regards accumulés» qui créent une aura artificielle.
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September 2014
September 2014
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Art Theory
Art Theory
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The system of objects
The system of objects
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A cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society, The System of Objects is a tour de force—a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all the live ideas of the day.
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A cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society, The System of Objects is a tour de force—a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all the live ideas of the day.
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The system of objects
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A cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society, The System of Objects is a tour de force—a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all the live ideas of the day.
The system of objects
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A cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society, The System of Objects is a tour de force—a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all the live ideas of the day.
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August 2006
August 2006
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Critical Theory
Critical Theory
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La société de consommation
La société de consommation
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La consommation est devenue la morale de notre monde. Elle est en train de détruire les bases de l'être humain, c'est-à-dire l'équilibre que la pensée européenne, depuis les Grecs, a maintenu entre les racines mythologiques et le monde du logos. L'auteur précise : «Comme la société du Moyen Âge s'équilibre sur la consommation et sur le diable, ainsi la nôtre s'équilibre(...)
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La consommation est devenue la morale de notre monde. Elle est en train de détruire les bases de l'être humain, c'est-à-dire l'équilibre que la pensée européenne, depuis les Grecs, a maintenu entre les racines mythologiques et le monde du logos. L'auteur précise : «Comme la société du Moyen Âge s'équilibre sur la consommation et sur le diable, ainsi la nôtre s'équilibre(...)
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La société de consommation
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La consommation est devenue la morale de notre monde. Elle est en train de détruire les bases de l'être humain, c'est-à-dire l'équilibre que la pensée européenne, depuis les Grecs, a maintenu entre les racines mythologiques et le monde du logos. L'auteur précise : «Comme la société du Moyen Âge s'équilibre sur la consommation et sur le diable, ainsi la nôtre s'équilibre sur la consommation et sur sa dénonciation.»
La société de consommation
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La consommation est devenue la morale de notre monde. Elle est en train de détruire les bases de l'être humain, c'est-à-dire l'équilibre que la pensée européenne, depuis les Grecs, a maintenu entre les racines mythologiques et le monde du logos. L'auteur précise : «Comme la société du Moyen Âge s'équilibre sur la consommation et sur le diable, ainsi la nôtre s'équilibre sur la consommation et sur sa dénonciation.»
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September 2015
September 2015
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Critical Theory
Critical Theory
