The Ecstasy of Communication (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)
The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost its meaning...
The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost its meaning...
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781584350576 (1584350571)
ASIN: 1584350571
Publish date: November 30th 2012
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Pages no: 88
Edition language: English
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 ...