1st Edition

Baudrillard and Signs Signification Ablaze

By Gary Genosko Copyright 1994
    220 Pages
    by Routledge

    220 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