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Simulacra and Simulation

Jean Baudrillard

174 pages

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About this book

Develops a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notions of cultural production with notions of cultural expenditure. This book represents an effort to rethink cultural theory from the perspective of a concept of cultural materialism, one that radically redefines postmodern formulations of the body.

Themes
Paradigm-ShiftingCultural Deep DivePhilosophy of LifeReality replaced by signsThe death of the realHyperreality over truthCulture as pure expenditure
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