Impossible Exchange
- ISBN-10
- 1859846475
- ISBN-13
- 9781859846476
- Category
- Reality
- Pages
- 168
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- Verso
- Author
- Jean Baudrillard
Description
Jean Baudrillard's now familiar investigations into reality and hyper-reality shift here into a more metaphysical frame. Working his way through the various spheres and systems of everyday life—the political, the juridical, the economical, the aesthetic, the biological, among others—he finds that they are all characterised by the same non-equivalence, and hence the same eccentricity. Literally, they have no meaning outside themselves and cannot be exchanged for anything. Politics is laden with signs and meanings, but seen from the outside it has no meaning. Schemes for genetic experimentation and investigation are becoming infinitely ramified, and the more ramified they become the more the crucial question is left unanswered: who rules over life? Who rules over death? Baudrillard's conclusion is that the true formula of contemporary nihilism lies here: the nihilism of value itself. This is our fate, and from this stem both the happiest and the most baleful consequences. This book might be said to be the exploration, first, of the 'fateful' consequences, and subsequently—by a poetic transference of situation—of the fortunate, happy consequences of impossible exchange.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
Hvor kommer virkeligheten fra?: samtaler med Arne Næss ; [innledende samtale med Erlend Loe].
By Arne NæssDette er en samling samtaler mellom Arne Næss og forskjellige personer om emner som kjærlighet, frihet, fremtid, rikdom, forbruk, forelskelse, glede, humor, skjønnhet og vitenskap.
-
The Healthy Management of Reality
By Ricardo F. MuñozThe author has been a professor of clinical psychology for 40 years. This brief book contains the thoughts and ideas he has used to reduce unnecessary suffering in his patients and elicit the good in his own life.
-
El manejo saludable de la realidad
By Ricardo F. MuñozMoldear la realidad es un proyecto colaborativo enorme en el cual todos estamos involucrados.
-
The Truth of Reality: Part one
By Tsúnyöta Köhe'tThe Truth of Reality: Part one
-
Cross of Reality - 1953
By Eugen Rosenstock-HuessyThe greatest painter of Germany, and he really com- -- compete with his contemporaries Michelangelo, and Raphael in Italy was Grünewald, Matthias Grünewald, who has painted the famous altar of Isenheim, near Colmar in the Alsace.
-
The Truth of Reality: Part two
By Tsúnyöta Köhe'tA circle which has no beginning and no end , but at any point on the circle there is both a beginning , and an end . 10.146 We cannot understand the circle whilst we only look upon the line . After we have learned that the line is part ...
-
The Truth of Your Reality: Insights on the Game of Life and How You Choose to Play It
By Nereeda McInnesIn this book, you will: Be reminded of the power of who you really are, Dive deep into the game of life and how you choose to play and create it, Uncover hidden meanings behind suffering and success, Understand how to attract more of what ...
-
Space-time and Beyond: Toward an Explanation of the Unexplainable
By Fred Alan Wolf, Bob TobenSpace-time and Beyond: Toward an Explanation of the Unexplainable
-
The Nature of Personal Reality: Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know
By Jane Roberts, Seth... NATURAL GRACE , THE FRAMEWORK OF CREATIVITY , AND THE HEALTH OF YOUR BODY AND MIND . THE BIRTH OF CONSCIENCE ( 11:30 . ) Chapter Nine : “ Natural Grace , the Framework of Creativity , and the Health of Your Body and Mind . The Birth of ...