Fatal Strategies

Fatal Strategies
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Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0745314538
ISBN-13 : 9780745314532
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis Fatal Strategies by : Jean Baudrillard

''... brilliantly original ... brings cultural and post-colonial theory to bear on a wide range of authors with great skill and sensitivity.' Terry Eagleton

Symbolic Exchange and Death

Symbolic Exchange and Death
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Publisher : SAGE
Total Pages : 281
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ISBN-10 : 9781473998407
ISBN-13 : 1473998409
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis Symbolic Exchange and Death by : Jean Baudrillard

Jean Baudrillard is one of the most celebrated and most controversial of contemporary social theorists. This major work occupies a central place in the rethinking of the humanities and social sciences around the idea of postmodernism. It leads the reader on an exhilarating tour encompassing the end of Marxism, the enchantment of fashion, symbolism about sex and the body, and the relations between economic exchange and death. Most significantly, the book represents Baudrillard′s fullest elaboration of the concept of the three orders of the simulacra, defining the historical passage from production to reproduction to simulation. A classic in its field, Symbolic Exchange and Death is a key source for the redefinition of contemporary social thought. Baudrillard′s critical gaze appraises social theories as diverse as cybernetics, ethnography, psychoanalysis, feminism, Marxism, communications theory and semiotics. This English translation begins with a new introductory essay.

Contemporary Perspectives on Rhetoric

Contemporary Perspectives on Rhetoric
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Publisher : Waveland Press
Total Pages : 405
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ISBN-10 : 9781478622154
ISBN-13 : 1478622156
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Contemporary Perspectives on Rhetoric by : Sonja K. Foss

The anniversary edition marks thirty years of offering an indispensable review and analysis of thinkers who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary rhetorical theory: I. A. Richards, Ernesto Grassi, Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca, Stephen Toulmin, Richard Weaver, Kenneth Burke, Jürgen Habermas, bell hooks, Jean Baudrillard, and Michel Foucault. The brief biographical sketches locate the theorists in time and place, showing how life experiences influenced perspectives on rhetorical thought. The concise explanations of complex concepts are clear, engaging, insightful, and highly accessible, serving as an excellent primer for reading the major works of these scholars. The critical commentary is carefully chosen to highlight implications and to place the theories within a broader rhetorical context. Each chapter ends with a complete bibliography of works by the theorists.

Jean Baudrillard

Jean Baudrillard
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Publisher : SIU Press
Total Pages : 250
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ISBN-10 : 9780809336258
ISBN-13 : 0809336251
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis Jean Baudrillard by : Brian Gogan

"This work is the first book-length treatment of Jean Baudrillard as a rhetorical theorist"--

Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings

Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 310
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ISBN-10 : 0804742731
ISBN-13 : 9780804742733
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings by : Jean Baudrillard

An expanded edition of the first comprehensive overview of Baudrillard's work, this new edition adds examples from after 1985.

Pixilated Practices

Pixilated Practices
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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages : 101
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ISBN-10 : 9781725260238
ISBN-13 : 1725260239
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis Pixilated Practices by : Christopher Peyton Miller

Media is a big part of our lives. We see and hear it everywhere. In this book Miller demonstrates how media has taken the place of ritual(s). Our everyday lives are constantly facilitated by media rituals. This media ritual process exists regardless of its content and is a phenomenon that overcomes our subjective experience with a constant flux of representations and seduction. Memory and mind are in a perpetual process of re-imaging, distortion, and violence. Human relationships can be comprised of sheer information sharing from any distance around the globe. The objective world around us is experienced and interpreted through the virtual worlds we are forced to participate in. The dialectic is barred and the flood of media images captures us in the univocal. Persons then understand that truth comes from their singular, isolated, and violated self. Therefore, the body in the real world feels foreign and we feel dissociated and anxious, reaching in a vain attempt for more media to fill and restore our bodily and spiritual needs. Our personhood and everything that we are lie under the influence of this media ritual process.

Reading Simulacra

Reading Simulacra
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Publisher : SUNY Press
Total Pages : 156
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ISBN-10 : 0791450635
ISBN-13 : 9780791450635
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Reading Simulacra by : M. W. Smith

Traces the ways in which our culture has increasingly become a culture of simulations, and offers strategies for discerning meaning in a world where the difference between what is real and what is simulated has collapsed.

Jean Baudrillard

Jean Baudrillard
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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages : 297
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ISBN-10 : 9780748694310
ISBN-13 : 0748694315
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis Jean Baudrillard by : Richard G Smith

This new collection gathers 23 highly insightful yet previously difficult-to-find interviews with Baudrillard, ranging over topics as diverse as art, war, technology, globalisation, terrorism and the fate of humanity.

Non-lethal Weapons--a Fatal Attraction?

Non-lethal Weapons--a Fatal Attraction?
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Publisher : Zed Books
Total Pages : 184
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ISBN-10 : 1856494853
ISBN-13 : 9781856494854
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis Non-lethal Weapons--a Fatal Attraction? by : Nick Lewer

Laser weapons, optical munitions causing blinding, electrical stunners, infrasound beams to disorient people, repeat pulse microwave devices, and a whole range of new chemical weapons (super-corrosives, super-adhesives, anti-traction and embrittling substances) - the list of new generation, hi-tech anti-personnel and anti-materiel ̃weaponry is a long one. These so-called non-lethal weapons are the subject of this remarkable book on an arms race which the general public has hardly yet heard of.

Ahuman Pedagogy

Ahuman Pedagogy
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 306
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ISBN-10 : 9783030947200
ISBN-13 : 3030947203
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis Ahuman Pedagogy by : Jessie L. Beier

This book brings together a collection of multi-disciplinary voices to discuss, debate, and devise a series of ahuman pedagogical proposals that aim to address the challenging ecological, political, social, economic, and aesthetic milieu within which education is situated today. Attending to contemporary calls to decenter all-too-human educational research and practice, while also coming to terms with the limits and inheritances through which such calls are made possible in the first place, this book aims to interrogate, but also invent, what we are calling an ahuman pedagogy. Organized in three main sections — Conjuring an Ahuman Pedagogy, Machinic Re/distributions, and Non-pedagogies for Unthought Futures — this multi-disciplinary experiment in ahuman pedagogies for the age of the Anthropocene offers an experimental – albeit always speculative and incomplete – series of pedagogical proposals that work to unthink and counter-actualize educational futures-as-usual.