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Baudrillard's Bestiary: Baudrillard and Culture
Author(s): Mike Gane (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 3 Oct. 1991
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 196 pages
- ISBN-10: 0415063078
- ISBN-13: 9780415063074
Book Description
Mike Gane provides an introduction to Baudrillard’s cultural theory: the conception of modernity and the complex process of simulation. He examines Baudrillard’s literary essays: his confrontation with Calvino, Styron, Ballard and Borges. Gane offers a coherent account of Baudrillard’s theory of cultural ambience, and the culture of consumer society. And it provides an introduction to Baudrillard’s fiction theory, and the analysis of transpolitical figures. The book also includes an interesting and provocative comparison of Baudrillard’s powerful essay against the modernist Pompidou Centre in Paris and Frederic Jameson’s analysis of the Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles. An interpretation of this encounter leads to the presentation of a very different Baudrillard from that which figures in contemporary debates on postmodernism.
Editorial Reviews
Review
`In this committed and important study, Mike Gane makes a case for Baudrillard as an important cultural critic …’ – The Sunday Times
About the Author
Mike Gane is Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences at Loughborough University.
