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Baudrillard and signs : signification ablaze

Author: Gary Genosko
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This book documents Baudrillard's tempestuous encounters with semiology and structuralism. Genosko illuminates in detail his efforts to destroy structural analyses from the inside by setting signification ablaze with his concept of symbolic exchange. Simultaneously, the book shows that Baudrillard's project to go beyond signification is fraught with difficulties which return him to a semiotic scene saturated with
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Named Person: Jean Baudrillard; Jean Baudrillard; Jean Baudrillard; Jean Baudrillard
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Gary Genosko
ISBN: 0415112567 9780415112567 0415112575 9780415112574
OCLC Number: 29751216
Description: xxii, 197 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: 1. Bar games. The table of conversions. Bar gains: neither Saussure nor Lacan --
2. Simulation and semiosis. The metaphysics of the referent. The model of simulation as a condensed history of modern semiotic debate on the referent. A Peircean turn. Deleuze and Guattari in the polysemiotic field. A Peircean return --
3. Varieties of symbolic exchange. Affirmative weaknesses. Juste pour rire. Anagrammatic dispersion. Lyotard and the primitive hippies. The weak and the dead. Hostage anti-value. Pataphysical gestures --
4. Empty signs and extravagant objects. Salt, sand and simulation. Exotes like us. Wily props and vengeful objects --
Conclusion: Signs of Baudrillard.
Responsibility: Gary Genosko.
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This book documents Baudrillard's tempestuous encounters with semiology and structuralism. Genosko illuminates in detail his efforts to destroy structural analyses from the inside by setting signification ablaze with his concept of symbolic exchange. Simultaneously, the book shows that Baudrillard's project to go beyond signification is fraught with difficulties which return him to a semiotic scene saturated with all kinds of signs.

Through this illumination, Baudrillard's work is situated in the broad spectrum of European and American semiotic traditions. His key concept of symbolic exchange is critically examined and is traced through its maturation and development over some thirty years of theorizing.

. Also examined are Baudrillard's engagements with and debts to French theatre and literature with reference to Antonin Artaud, Alfred Jarry and Victor Segalen. Discussion of Baudrillard's relation to the thought of Deleuze, Guattari, Lacan, de Certeau and Lyotard casts light on many neglected features of his work.

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