ABSTRACT

This book relates Baudrillard's work to contemporary social r4248y. The author traces the connections between Baudrillard's work and Marx and Marxism; Lefebvre and structuralist method; the works of Saussure, Bataille, Barthes, Foucault, Mauss, Peirce, McLuhan and the Prague School. The result is an authoritative and stimulating account of Baudrillard and modern social theory.

chapter 1|27 pages

Bar games

chapter 2|44 pages

Simulation and semiosis

chapter 3|45 pages

Varieties of symbolic exchange

chapter 4|35 pages

Empty signs and extravagant objects