Simülakrlar ve Simülasyon
Format: paperback
ISBN:
975698113X
Publish date: June 1998
Publisher: Dokuz Eylül Yayınları
Pages no: 194
Edition language: Turkish
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
Academic,
Cultural,
Criticism,
Art,
Culture,
Philosophy,
Sociology,
France,
Cultural Studies,
Theory
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.
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...