Simulacra and Simulation
- ISBN-10
- 0472065211
- ISBN-13
- 9780472065219
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 164
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Author
- Jean Baudrillard
Description
Develops a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notions of cultural production with notions of cultural expenditure. This book represents an effort to rethink cultural theory from the perspective of a concept of cultural materialism, one that radically redefines postmodern formulations of the body.
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