1st Edition

Baudrillard and Signs Signification Ablaze

By Gary Genosko Copyright 1994
220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

This book relates Baudrillard's work to contemporary social r4248y. The author traces the connections between Baudrillard's work and Marx and Marxism; Lefebvre and structuralist method; the works of Saussure, Bataille, Barthes, Foucault, Mauss, Peirce, McLuhan and the Prague School. The result is an authoritative and stimulating account of Baudrillard and modern social theory.

Introduction: Signs must burn! 1. Bar games 2. Simulation and semiosis 3. Varieties of symbolic exchange 4. Empty signs and extravagant objects Conclusion: Signs of Baudrillard

Biography

Gary Genosko