Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings: Second Edition

Baudrillard, Jean - Selected Writings......Page 1
Acknowledgments......Page 2
Notes on the Translation......Page 4
Introduction......Page 5
Notes......Page 12
Serial conditioning......Page 14
Freedom by default......Page 16
Structure and demarcation: the brand......Page 18
A universal code: social standing......Page 23
Conclusion: towards a definition of \"consumption\"......Page 25
Notes......Page 29
2 Consumer Society......Page 33
Profusion and displays......Page 34
The Drugstore......Page 35
Parly 2......Page 37
The autopsy of homo economicus......Page 39
The fluidity of objects and needs......Page 48
The denial of pleasure......Page 50
A structural analysis?......Page 51
The fun-system, or the constraint of pleasure......Page 52
Consumption as the rise and control of new productive forces......Page 53
The logistic function of the individual......Page 56
Ego consumans......Page 58
Notes......Page 59
For a general theory......Page 61
General political economy / Symbolic exchange......Page 67
Beyond use value......Page 68
Marx and Crusoe......Page 77
Toward a critique of the political economy of the sign......Page 79
The magical thinking of ideology......Page 80
The metaphysics of the sign......Page 84
The mirage of the referent......Page 86
Denotation and connotation......Page 92
Beyond the sign: the symbolic......Page 94
Notes......Page 97
4 The Mirror of Production......Page 102
Critique of use value and labor power......Page 103
The concrete aspect of labor: the \"dialectic\" of quality and quantity......Page 105
Man\'s double \"generic\" face......Page 107
Ethic of labor; aesthetic of play......Page 109
Marx and the hieroglyph of value......Page 114
In the shadow of Marxist concepts......Page 117
The critique of political economy is basically completed......Page 119
Notes......Page 120
Introduction......Page 123
The structural revolution of value......Page 128
The end of production......Page 132
Labor......Page 136
The stucco angel......Page 139
The industrial simulacrum......Page 141
The metaphysics of the code......Page 143
The hyperrealism of simulation......Page 147
Notes......Page 151
The sacred horizon of appearances......Page 153
The trompe-l\'oeil or the enchanted simulation......Page 158
The secret and the challenge......Page 163
Seduction, it is destiny......Page 167
Notes......Page 169
7 Simulacra and Simulations......Page 170
The divine irreference of images......Page 171
Hyperreal and imaginary......Page 175
Political incantation......Page 176
Moebius: spiralling negativity......Page 178
Strategy of the real......Page 181
Notes......Page 186
Ecstasy and inertia......Page 189
Toward a principle of evil......Page 202
Notes......Page 210
9 The Masses: The Implosion of the Social in the Media......Page 211
Notes......Page 223