Jean.Baudrillard.Simulacra.and.Simulation

Simulacra and Simulation

Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

By: Jean Baudrillard

Translated by: Sheila Faria Glaser

ISBN 10: 0472065211 (PB)

ISBN 10: 0472095218 (HB)

ISBN 13: 9780472065219

Canadian National Catalogue (AMICUS) Number: 14307516

OCLC Number: 31290607

OCoLC: 607674911

Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number: 94-38393

Publisher: The University of Michigan Press (2006)

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The inspiration for the movie The Matrix

The simulacrum is never what hides the truth – it is truth that hides the fact that there is none.

The simulacrum is true.

-Ecclesiastes

The first full-length translation in English of an essential work of postmodernism.

The publication of Simulacra et Simulation in 1981 marked Jean Baudrillard’s first important step toward theorizing the postmodern. Moving away from the Marxist/Freudian approaches that had concerned him earlier, Baudrillard developed in this book a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notions of cultural production with notions of cultural expenditure.

Baudrillard uses the concepts of the simulacra-the copy without an original-and simulation. These terms are crucial to an understanding of the postmodern, to the extent that they address the concept of mass reproduction and reproduceability that characterizes our electronic media culture.

Baudrillard’s book represents a unique and original effort to rethink cultural theory from the perspective of a new concept of cultural materialism, one that radically redefines postmodern formulations of the body.

Sheila Glaser is an editor at Artforum magazine.

Praise/Awards:

“Simulacra and Simulation is arguably Baudrillard’s most important book. In it he moves from a theory of consumer society governed by a ‘code’ to a general theory of culture that problematizes ‘reality.’ His idea of the hyperreal informs most discussions.”

-Mark Poster, University of California, Irvine

“Baudrillard’s studies in simulacra and simulation are among his most important work, particularly as they pertain to his concept of postmodernity and analyses of postmodern culture. The English translation of these essays is therefore very welcome.”

-Douglas Kellner, University of Texas, Austin

“. . . a very accessible introduction to [Baudrillard’s] thought.”

-The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory