Baudrillard

Self-described "intellectual terrorist" Jean Baudrillard is one of the most important and provocative writers of the contemporary era. Widely acclaimed as the prophet to postmodernity, he has famously announced the disappearance of the subject, political economy, meaning, truth, the social, and the real in contemporary social formations.

Notes on Contributors vii Introduction: Jean Baudrillard in the Fin-de-Millennium 1 Douglas Kellner 1. The System of Objects and the Commodification of Everyday Life: The Early Baudrillard 25 Mark Gottdiener 2. The Commodification of Reality and the Reality of Commodification: Baudrillard, Debord, and Postmodern Theory 41 Steven Best  3. Critical Theory and Technoculture: Habermas and Baudrillard 68 Mark Poster 4. Semiotics, Cybernetics, and the Ecstasy of Marketing Communications 89 Kim Sawchuck 5. Fashion and Signification in Baudrillard 119 Efrat Tseelon 6. Fatal Forms: Toward a (Neo) Formal Sociological Theory of Media Culture 135 Jonathan S. Epstein and Margaarete J. Epstein 7. Symbolic Exchange in Hyperreality 150 Deborah Cook 8. Capitalism and the Code: A Critique of Baudrillard's Third Order Simulacrum 168 Sara Schoonmaker 9. Simulation: The Highest Stage of Capitalism? 189 James Der Derian 10. Aesthetic Production and Cultural Politics: Baudrillard and Contemporary Art 209 Timothy W. Luke 11. Baudrillard, Modernism, and Postmodernism 227 Nicholas Zurbrugg 12. Valorizing “the Feminine” while Rejecting Feminism? – Baudrillard’s Feminist Provocations 257 13. The Drama of Theory: Vengeful Objects and Wily Props 292 Gary Genosko 14. Baudrillard, Time and the End 313 William Bogard