The Social Life of Money
by Nigel Dodd · 14 May 2014 · 700pp · 201,953 words
worth of the poem itself” (Auster 1989: 39). More recently, the expansion of the financial sector has generated some colorful and (usually) dystopian language metaphors. Jean Baudrillard wrote of an “economy of signs” flowing endlessly through a domain of circulation that he likened to the grotesquely bloated, vacuous belly of Alfred Jarry
In Our Own Image: Savior or Destroyer? The History and Future of Artificial Intelligence
by George Zarkadakis · 7 Mar 2016 · 405pp · 117,219 words
where scientific publications are sometimes published with fabricated results in order to look good. Nothing is real …6 A very prominent post-structuralist philosopher is Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007), who became more widely known thanks to the movie The Matrix. Baudrillard began his career as a teacher and a sociologist, but later
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a well-meaning communicator pursuing the higher goal of true elucidation, language is firmly set against you. We discussed how the French post-structuralist philosopher Jean Baudrillard cast doubt upon whether the First Gulf War actually ‘happened’, by challenging the language and other communication devices used to communicate the war through mass
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post-structuralist philosophers includes philosopher and historian Michel Foucault, philosopher and social commentator Jacques Derrida, Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser, literary critic Roland Barthes, and philosopher Jean Baudrillard. 5Latour B., and Woolgar S. (1979), Laboratory Life: The Social Construction of Scientific Facts. Los Angeles: Sage Publications. 6Lyrics from the Beatles’ song ‘Strawberry Fields
The Problem With Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries
by Kathi Weeks · 8 Sep 2011 · 350pp · 110,764 words
much as to account for their inspiration and explain the kinds of claims and assumptions they presuppose. In terms of theoretical resources, although Max Weber, Jean Baudrillard, and Friedrich Nietzsche will each have a critical role to play at some point in the analysis, the project draws most heavily, albeit selectively, on
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, but also its points of instability and vulnerability. Chapter 2 explores some theoretical tools with which we might exploit some of these openings. Drawing on Jean Baudrillard’s critique of productivism, the chapter explores the limitations of two familiar paradigms of Marxist theory, labeled here “socialist modernization” and “socialist humanism,” and then
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productivism will serve as our point of entry. The critique of productivism in Marxism was put forth perhaps most succinctly and certainly most provocatively by Jean Baudrillard in The Mirror of Production. According to Baudrillard, “a specter haunts the revolutionary imagination: the phantom of production. Everywhere it sustains an unbridled romanticism of
Hacking Capitalism
by Söderberg, Johan; Söderberg, Johan;
In order to include users and audiences in the production process we need to re-examine the commonsense categorisation of production and consumption. Starting with Jean Baudrillard, post-modernists have relentlessly charged that Marxism is outdated because it fails to give due consideration to consumption as well as production. While post-modernists
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depicted the society of the spectacle as overwhelming, his writing and actions aspired to the disbandment of this state of things. When the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard picked up the same theme ten years later, his aim was to disprove the very notion of resistance. The principal target of Baudrillard was the
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economy. It is generally agreed that imagery has become a key factor in driving consumption and, thus, production. Academics researching the topic draw more from Jean Baudrillard than from Guy Debord. The concept of use value tends to be dismissed with a brief reference to Baudrillard’s critique of Marxism.9 This
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goods derive at least part of their use value from their positions vis-à-vis comparable goods. In this sense, there is some merit to Jean Baudrillard’s well-known catch phrase: ‘the sign has no referent’. By that he expressed the idea that there is no function or concrete use which
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emancipating potential, and thus its legitimacy, if redistribution of wealth only serves to grease the wheels of the system. It is on this ground that Jean Baudrillard wrote his obituary notice over anti-capitalist resistance. He failed to see, however, that struggle has not ended but is finding new outlets. Just as
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’s second invasion of Iraq. In the first invasion by the senior Bush administration, the control over the journalists was so tight that it sent Jean Baudrillard pondering over if the war had really happened. The control over news media was even stricter the last time around. In spite of that journalists
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which it is also implied that Marxism and the very idea of a universal, emancipatory project has been invalidated. Manuel Castells echoes the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard’s charge against Marxism under the banner of simulacra. In The Mirror of Production, were Baudrillard definitely departed from his Marxist heritage, he announced that
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semiotics. At a closer look, however, it becomes clear that simulacra is mobilised exactly for the purpose of simulating the dogmas of bourgeoisie political economy. Jean Baudrillard, The Mirror of Production (St Lois: Telos Press, 1975); hereafter cited in text. 20. One exception is the Soviet linguistic Valentin Volosinov. Already back in
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the aesthetisation of the economy, Scott Lash and John Urry skips over the concept of use value in two sentences and with a reference to Jean Baudrillard. Likewise, in Consumer Culture & Postmodernism, another milestone in the field, Mike Featherstone cites Baudrillard extensively but the name Guy Debord seems never to have crossed
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signifier becomes its own referent and the use value of the sign disappears to the benefit of its commutation and exchange value alone.” (Baudrillard, 128). Jean Baudrillard has rightly been criticised for theorising use value exclusively from the viewpoint of capital and for not taking account of how class struggle intervenes in
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defining needs. Nonetheless, both Douglas Kellner and Maryn Lee concede that the early works of Baudrillard is challenging and warrant a serious discussion. Douglas Kellner, Jean Baudrillard—From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1989), and, Martyn Lee, Consumer Culture Reborn—The Cultural Politics of Consumption (London: Routledge 1993). 13
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, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000. Katz, Claudio. From Feudalism to Capitalism—Marxian Theories of Class Struggle and Social Change, New York: Greenwood Press, 1989. Kellner, Douglas. Jean Baudrillard—From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1989. Klemens, Ben. Ma+h You Can’t Use—Patents, Copyright, and Software, Washington, D.C
Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History
by Alex von Tunzelmann · 7 Jul 2021 · 337pp · 87,236 words
this statue, though, is characteristic of the story. The boundary between what is real and what is fake would soon disappear altogether. The French philosopher Jean Baudrillard defined ‘hyperreality’ – a state in which you cannot tell the difference between reality and a simulation, or ‘simulacrum’, of reality. In 1991, at the time
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Take Place, translated by Paul Patton (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1995), pp. 53, 24, 64. See also Samuel Strehle, ‘A poetic anthropology of war: Jean Baudrillard and the 1991 Gulf War’, International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, vol. 11, no. 2, May 2014. 9Quoted in Nicholas Watt, ‘Baghdad is safe, the infidels
Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation
by Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber · 29 Oct 2024 · 292pp · 106,826 words
in sequences of bits. But as technologies of bit manipulation improve, the artificial worlds they create are improving faster than the real one. The philosopher Jean Baudrillard referred to this category as technologies of the “hyper-real”: simulacra that lack a referent and become substitutes for reality. In other words, instead of
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it. Naturally, eternal stagnation is preferred over economic collapse, which is not a political option. Stagnation, in other words, is a choice. The postmodern philosopher Jean Baudrillard was not primarily thinking about finance when he came up with the idea of hyperreality, but the term is apt in this post-Bretton
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unemployment and high rates of bankruptcy and foreclosure is a very inefficient way to get there.” Roger Lowenstein, “The Villain,” The Atlantic, April 2012. 52 Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1994), 2. 53 Referring to the dichotomy between a real and a virtual economy, Baudrillard writes that
Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart
by Nicholas Carr · 28 Jan 2025 · 231pp · 85,135 words
us—how we talk, how we see other people, how we experience the world. Part Two The Tragedy Of Communication * * * Words move quicker than meaning. —jean baudrillard Chapter 4 Fast Talking, Fast Thinking Marching Backwards Something unexpected happened when engineers and mathematicians logged onto the Arpanet early in the 1970s. They started
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it takes shape within us, its production exerting a formative pressure on our being. Media today works “from the inside,” the French philosopher and semiotician Jean Baudrillard argued in The Perfect Crime, “precisely as a virus does with a normal cell.”22 We consume media, then media consumes us. We’re not
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screens,” the poet Annelyse Gelman wrote in Vexations, her 2023 epic of contemporary derangement. “Looking at pixels made me think in pixels.”6 It was Jean Baudrillard, the French thinker, who more clearly than anyone else foresaw the implications of our media-induced psychic transformation. Nearly a century after Charles Cooley suggested
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.James A. Holstein and Jaber F. Gubrium, The Self We Live By: Narrative Identity in a Postmodern World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), 66. 22.Jean Baudrillard, The Perfect Crime (London: Verso, 2008), 28. 23.Dorothy E. Smith, Texts, Facts, and Femininity: Exploring the Relations of Ruling (London: Routledge, 1990), 209. 24
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.Nathan Jurgenson, The Social Photo (London: Verso, 2019), 35. 6.Annelyse Gelman, Vexations (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023). 7.Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories, trans. Chris Turner (London: Verso, 1990), 22. 8.Jean Baudrillard, Symbolic Exchange and Death, trans. Iain Hamilton Grant (London: Sage, 1993), 2, 76. Italics are Baudrillard’s. 9.Jaak Panksepp
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, Affective Neuroscience (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), 145. 10.Jean Baudrillard, The Ecstasy of Communication, trans. Bernard Schütze and Caroline Schütze (Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2012), 20. 11.Caroline Mimbs Nyce, “TikTok Is Opening a Parallel
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Dimension in Europe,” Atlantic, August 16, 2023. 12.Jean Baudrillard, The Vital Illusion (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000), 66. 13.Jane McGonigal, Reality Is Broken (New York: Penguin, 2011), 3. 14.Christopher Mims, “You
Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent
by Robert F. Barsky · 2 Feb 1997
in particular works by Baudrillard, de Man, Derrida, Lyotardis a careful and wellreasoned version of Chomsky's own rather dramatic assessment. Norris's critique of Jean Baudrillard's postmodernism, in particular, serves to contextualize Chomsky's stance. In his Uncritical Theory: Postmodernism, Intellectuals and the Gulf War (1992), Norris responds to Baudrillard
Howard Rheingold
by The Virtual Community Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier-Perseus Books (1993) · 26 Apr 2012
spreading to the rest of the world, is what Guy Debord would call the first quantum leap into the "society of the spectacle" and what Jean Baudrillard would recognize as a milestone in the world's slide into hyper-reality. Mass media's colonization of civil society turned into a quasipolitical campaign
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eliminating any possible reference to the authentic. And what is genuine is reconstructed as quickly as possible, to resemble the false. Another French social critic, Jean Baudrillard, has been writing since the 1960s about the increasingly synthetic nature of technological civilization and a culture that has been irrevocably tainted by the corruption
On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense
by David Brooks · 2 Jun 2004 · 262pp · 79,469 words
of violence. He wants to head straight for the hyper-reality, for Vegas, for Orlando. The quintessential French love letter to the U.S. is Jean Baudrillard’s 1986 book, America. It is of course a brilliant book. That is to say, the subject of the book is Baudrillard’s brilliance. There
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