Utopia deferred : writings from Utopie (1967-1978) / Jean Baudrillard ; translated by Stuart Kendall.

Main entry:

Baudrillard, Jean, 1929-2007.

Title & Author:

Utopia deferred : writings from Utopie (1967-1978) / Jean Baudrillard ; translated by Stuart Kendall.

Publication:

Description:

327 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Series:

Semiotext(e) foreign agents series

Notes:
"Aside from the interviews at the beginning, all of these texts originally appeared in the journal Utopie, published between 1967 and 1978"--Page 325.
Includes bibliographical references.
Jean Baudrillard, "On Utopie" -- Dialectical utopia -- The ephemeral -- Play and the police -- Technics as social practice -- Utopia deferred -- Strike story -- Requiem for the media -- DNA or the metaphysics of the code -- The mirror of production -- Marxism and the system of political economy -- Strike story -- The dramatization of economics -- The BNP campaign -- Animals sick of surplus value -- Death trick -- The failure of prophecy -- Taking hostages -- Death to savages -- Stereo porn -- The spiraling cadaver -- Labor story -- Value's last tango -- The magic struggle or the final flute -- Castrated before marriage -- Our theater of cruelty.

Summary:

"Utopia Deferred collects all of the essays Jean Baudrillard published in Utopie in their original form as well as a recent interview with the author. These essays, torn from the headlines of the tumultuous decade following May 1968, surpass Marxism itself."--Jacket.

ISBN:

1584350334
9781584350330

Subject:

Utopie.
Social psychology France.
Postmodernism France.
Psychologie sociale France.
Postmodernisme France.
Intellectual life.
Politics and government
Postmodernism.
Social psychology.
Essays (teksten)
Socialpsykologi.
Intellektuellt liv.
France Intellectual life 20th century.
France Politics and government 1969-1974.
France Politics and government 1974-1981.
Frankrike.
France Vie intellectuelle 20e siècle.
France Politique et gouvernement 1969-1974.
France Politique et gouvernement 1974-1981.
France.

Added entries:

Kendall, Stuart.
Semiotext(e) foreign agents series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 248865
Call No.: BIB 178428
Status: Available

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