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The perfect crime

Auteur : Jean Baudrillard
Éditeur : London ; New York : Verso, 1996.
Édition/format :   Livre : AnglaisVoir toutes les éditions et les formats
Résumé :
In this 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 'murder' of reality. To solve the crime would be to unravel the technological and social processes by which our world is becoming a thing of (empty) transparency and visibility, a place where reality, swamped by the 'real time' of the news
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Format physique additionnel : Online version:
Baudrillard, Jean, 1929-2007.
Perfect crime.
London ; New York : Verso, 1996
(OCoLC)604468871
Online version:
Baudrillard, Jean, 1929-2007.
Perfect crime.
London ; New York : Verso, 1996
(OCoLC)610040978
Format : Livre
Tous les auteurs / collaborateurs : Jean Baudrillard
ISBN : 1859849199 9781859849194 1859840442 9781859840443
Numéro OCLC : 34553467
Description : 156 p. ; 21 cm.
Contenu : The Perfect Crime --
The Spectre of the Will --
The Radical Illusion --
Trompe-l'oeil Genesis --
The Automatic Writing of the World --
The Horizon of Disappearance --
The Countdown --
The Material Illusion --
The Secret Vestiges of Perfection --
The Height of Reality --
The Irony of Technology --
Machinic Snobbery --
Objects in This Mirror --
The Babel Syndrome --
Radical Thought --
The World Without Women --
The Surgical Removal of Otherness --
The 'Laying-Off' of Desire --
The New Victim Order --
Indifference and Hatred --
The Revenge of the Mirror People.
Autres titres : Crime parfait.
Responsabilité : Jean Baudrillard ; translated by Chris Turner.

Résumé :

In this 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 'murder' of reality. To solve the crime would be to unravel the technological and social processes by which our world is becoming a thing of (empty) transparency and visibility, a place where reality, swamped by the 'real time' of the news media, has quite simply vanished. But Baudrillard is not merely intending to lament the disappearance of the real, an occurrence he recently described as 'the most important event of modern history', nor even to meditate upon the paradoxes of reality and illusion, truth and its masks. The Perfect Crime is also the work of a great moraliste: it is a penetrating examination of vital aspects of the social, political and cultural life of the 'advanced democracies' in the (very) late twentieth century.

However, whether stripping away the layers of hypocrisy which surround our smug perceptions of the former Yugoslavia, or deploring the New European Order characterized by 'white fundamentalism, protectionism, discrimination and control', the moraliste is also the deft and disturbing social theorist. Where critics like McLuhan once exposed the alienating consequences of 'the medium', Baudrillard lays bare the depredatory effects of an oppressive transparency, on our social lives of a relentless positivity on our critical faculties, and of a withering 'high definition' on our very sense of reality.

Table des matières :

de WTYILL@KUK (Utilisateur WorldCat sur 2006-06-19)

The Perfect Crime 1
The Spectre of the Will 8
The Radical Illusion 16
Trompe-l'œil Genesis 20
The Automatic Writing of the World 25
The Horizon of Disappearance 35
The Countdown 45
The Material Illusion 51
The Secret Vestiges of Perfection 60
The Height of Reality 64
The Irony of Technology 71
Machinic Snobbery 75
Objects in This Mirror 85
The Babel Syndrome 90
Radical Thought 94

The Other Side of the Crime
- The World Without Women 111
- The Surgical Removal of Otherness 115
- The 'Laying-Off' of Desire 124
- The New Victim Order 131
- Indifference and Hatred 142
- The Revenge of the Mirror People 148

Translator's Notes 153

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