âThe need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost its meaning.â
In his new book, perhaps the most cogent expression of his mature thought, Jean Baudrillard turns detective in order to investigate a crime which he hopes may yet be solved: the âmurderâ of reality. To solve the crime...
"Jean Baudrillard lässt sich auf seiner Reise durch das Land wie seine geistigen Vorfahren CrèvecSur und Tocqueville von den gewaltigen Stadt- und Naturlandschaften zu philosophischen Reflexionen anregen. Auch bei ihm geht es um ihren...
Human cultures are divided into two basic types, two antagonistic forces, one based on symbolic exchange, which is dual and reciprocal, and one based on money and sign exchange, which is totalising. A summation of Baudrillard's work over twenty years...