Name: Telemorphosis
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Author: Jean Baudrillard
ISBN: 9781937561000

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jean Baudrillard

Translated by

Drew S. Burk

Publisher

Univocal Publishing

Year

2012

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

16.3x11.4x0.8 cm

Weight

0.09 kg.

ISBN

1937561003

ISBN13

9781937561000

Edition No.

Synopsis "Telemorphosis"

The art of living today has shifted to a continuous state of the experimental. In one of his last texts, Telemorphosis, renowned thinker and anti-philosopher Jean Baudrillard takes on the task of thinking and reflecting on the coming digital media architectures of the social. While "the social" may have never existed, according to Baudrillard, his analysis at the beginning of the twenty-first century of the coming social media-networked cultures cannot be ignored. One need not look far in order to find oneself snared within some sort of screenification of a techno-social community. "What the most radical critical critique, the most subversive delirious imagination, what no Situationist drift could have done . . . television has done." Collective reality has entered a realm of telemorphosis.

Jean Baudrillard

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Jean Baudrillard was a French sociologist, philosopher, and essayist, known for his critical analysis of mass culture, consumption, and media. His work falls within philosophical and sociological essays, with a provocative and speculative style that has widely influenced contemporary thought. A professor at the University of Paris X Nanterre, he was a key figure in postmodernism and simulation theory.

Among his most important works are Simulacra and Simulation (1981), The Transparency of Evil (1990), The Perfect Crime (1995), and The Total Screen (1996). He was the sole author of these texts, which have become benchmarks for understanding cultural transformations in the age of media and virtuality.

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