The Agony of Power
$24.60
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
3 December 2010
Summary
Baudrillard’s unsettling coda- previously unpublished texts written just before the visionary theorist’s death in 2007.History that repeats itself turns to farce. But a farce that repeats itself ends up making a history.-from The Agony of PowerIn these previously unpublished manuscripts written just before his death in 2007, Jean Baudrillard takes a last crack at the bewildering situation currently facing us as we exit the system of “domination” (based on alienation, revolt, revolution) and e…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781584350927 |
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| ISBN-10: | 158435092X |
| Author: | Jean Baudrillard, Sylvère Lotringer, Ames Hodges |
| Publisher: | Autonomedia |
| Imprint: | Semiotext |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 3 December 2010 |
| Weight: | 136g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 114mm x 10mm |
| Series: | Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series |
About The Author
Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) was a philosopher, sociologist, cultural critic, and theorist of postmodernity who challenged all existing theories of contemporary society with humor and precision. An outsider in the French intellectual establishment, he was internationally renowned as a twenty-first century visionary, reporter, and provocateur.Sylv re Lotringer is Jean Baudrillard Chair at the European Graduate School, Switzerland, and Professor Emeritus of French literature and philosophy at Columbia University.
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