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Simulacra and Simulation The Body, In Theory

Simulacra and Simulation The Body, In Theory

Histories of Cultural Materialism)

by Jean Baudrillard

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appears in Philosophy, Philosophy, and Social Sciences.

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 wit...

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appears in Philosophy, Philosophy, and Social Sciences.

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