This was a very interesting book. It discusses the illusion of the existence of an end. Nowadays, we live in a situation in which the end as such cannot happen. The end fades away with time because we are moving in circles rather than in a linear manner, and this situation has devastating consequenc...
Baudrillard takes on what would later become the digital world, and it ain't pretty. As Marx is to the obscenity of the commodity, so is Baudrillard to the ecstasy of communication. Baudrillard contends that our preoccupation has shifted to the overexposure of the transparency of the world: as such ...
I've been meaning to read this for a long time. Baudrillard's ideas have always struck me as incredibly sensible in the (at times, very stupid) world we live in.
Jean Baudrillard gets better with every word. No one has ever clarified seduction with such refinement and eloquence.“For nothing can be greater than seduction, than seduction itself; not even the order that destroys it". Baudrillard in this text pose a challenge to the psychoanalytical quest...
Not so much a review as an illustration of why I like his thinking so much. A couple of excerpts from his book:If we were able to view the Borges fable in which the cartographers of the Empire draw up a map so detailed that it ends up covering the territory exactly (the decline of the Empire witness...
tam adıyla tüketim toplumu söylenceleri ve yapıları olarak dilimize ayrıntı yayınları tarafından kazandırılan la societe de consommation; milenyuma ve kapitalizmin geldiği noktaya dair gerçekçi bir bakış sunuyor.kitap dostoyevski’nin şu sözleriyle başlıyor:bütün maddi tatminleri sağlayın ona, öyle k...
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