{"product_id":"baudrillard-now-9780745647074","title":"Baudrillard Now","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe writings of Jean Baudrillard have dramatically altered the face of critical theory and promise to pose challenges well into the 21st century. His work on simulation, media, the status of the image, the system of objects, hyperreality, and information technology continues to influence intellectual work in a diverse set of fields. This volume uniquely provides overviews of Baudrillard''s career while also simultaneously including examples of current works on and with Baudrillard that engage some of the many and varied ways Baudrillard''s work is being addressed, deployed, and critiqued in the present. As such, it offers chapters useful to the novice and the well-versed in critical theory and Baudrillard Studies alike. Contributors to the volume include John Armitage, John Beck, Ryan Bishop, Doug Kellner, John Phillips and Mark Poster. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e No less controversial today than he was in the past, Baudrillard continues to divide intellectuals and academicians, an issue this volume\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Contains excellent stuff for anyone passionate about Baudrillard, about contemporary media culture, and especially about that which should have us \u003ci\u003ethink\u003c\/i\u003e more: the brutal state of the world \u003ci\u003enow\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eInternational Journal of Baudrillard Studies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"At last a critical volume that dares bringing Baudrillard to where he really belongs: dialectics, hermeneutics, phenomenology, deconstruction, boldly calling upon Hegel, Heidegger, Derrida and Foucault to illuminate the relation of his thought to contemporary society, culture and theory. A real breakthrough.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eSylvere Lotringer, Columbia University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I did not realize how much I missed Baudrillard's presence in the world and in that of critical thought until I read this collection of assessments by master interpreters of his later work and exemplary producers of original critical work under its influence. Baudrillard himself is gone but his later works, considered perhaps excessive and faux-oracular, are becoming only richer guides for present becomings.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eGeorge E. Marcus, University of California, Irvine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Ryan Bishop's career exemplifies rigorous theoretical and historical engagement with pressing material and symbolic problems. In \u003ci\u003eBaudrillard Now\u003c\/i\u003e, he extends his thinking to renew Baudrillard's insistent value for a new generation of intellectuals and makers of culture. In a time of rampant messianism and apocalyptic visionaries, Bishop does the world a service in giving us a Baudrillard who warns us there can be apocalyptic visions neither induced nor comforted by revelation.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePaul A. Bové, University of Pittsburgh\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This excellent, thought-provoking collection - written by leading experts - makes a vital contribution to the current debate on the work of Jean Baudrillard.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eMike Gane, University of Loughborough\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The End of Baudrillard and Beyond\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRyan Bishop\u003c\/i\u003e 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007): A Critical Overview\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDouglas Kellner\u003c\/i\u003e 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Baudrillard and the Evil Genius\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRyan Bishop and John Phillips\u003c\/i\u003e 28\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Baudrillard, Death, and Cold War Theory\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRyan Bishop\u003c\/i\u003e 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Swan's Way: Care of Self in the Hyperreal\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMark Poster\u003c\/i\u003e 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Et in Arizona Ego: Baudrillard on the Planet of the Apes\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Beck\u003c\/i\u003e 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Pursuit in Paris\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Armitage\u003c\/i\u003e 116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 What is a Tank?\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRyan Bishop and John Phillips\u003c\/i\u003e 136\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Some Reflections on Baudrillard's \"On Disappearance\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDouglas Kellner\u003c\/i\u003e 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Humanity's End\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Phillips\u003c\/i\u003e 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 172\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404390113623,"sku":"9780745647074","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745647074.jpg?v=1730486312","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/baudrillard-now-9780745647074","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}