Why hasn't everything already disappeared? / Jean Baudrillard ; translated by Chris Turner ; with images by Alain Willaume.

Main entry:

Baudrillard, Jean, 1929-2007, author.

Title & Author:

Why hasn't everything already disappeared? / Jean Baudrillard ; translated by Chris Turner ; with images by Alain Willaume.

Publication:

London : Seagull Books, 2016.
©2009

Description:

77 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.

Series:

The French list

Notes:
"First published in English by Seagull Books in 2009"--Title page verso.
Translated from the French.

Summary:

"In this, one of the last texts written before his death in March 2007, Baudrillard meditates poignantly on the question of disappearance. Throughout, he weaves an intricate set of variations on his theme, ranging from the potential disappearance of humanity as a result of the fulfillment of its goal of world mastery to the vanishing of reality due to the continual transmutation of the real into the virtual. Along the way, he takes in the more conventional question of the philosophical 'subject,' whose disappearance has, in his view, been caused by a 'pulverization of consciousness into all the interstices of reality.' Interspersed throughout the text are 15 photographs by Alain Willaume that help illustrate Baudrillard's argument. Baudrillard insists that with disappearance, strange things happen - some things that were eliminated or repressed may return in destructive viral forms - yet at the same time, he reminds us that disappearance has a positive aspect, as a 'vital dimension' of the existence of things."--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0857424017 (paperback)
9780857424013 (paperback)

Subject:

Nothing (Philosophy)
Nonbeing.
Ontology.
Néant (Philosophie)
Non-être.
Ontologie.
ontology (metaphysics)

Added entries:

Willaume, Alain, photographer.
Turner, Chris, 1953- translator.
French list.

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 293554
Call No.: BIB 238655
Status: Available

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