Baudrillard Redux: Antidotes to Integral Reality

Authors: Smith, Richard G.; Clarke, David B.; Doel, Marcus A.

Source: Cultural Politics: an International Journal, Volume 7, Number 3, November 2011 , pp. 325-337(13)

Publisher: Berg Publishers

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Abstract:

Jean Baudrillard was one of the world's most influential and controversial intellectual figures. He died in Paris in 2007, aged seventy-seven, leaving a legacy that includes some of the most prescient, penetrating, and provocative commentary on the cultures and politics of our age. His oeuvre spans more than fifty books and hundreds of articles. Almost no aspect of Western culture, particularly those aspects contemporaneous with his own life, escaped Baudrillard's attention: the paradoxes of a consumer society geared to satisfaction yet more than capable of generating its own discontents; the implosion of the real in the wake of a media-induced excess of reality; the collapse of universalism and the rise of globalization and global terrorism; the fate of art in a transaesthetic era; and of politics in a transpolitical era; and so on. Baudrillard's ability to overturn accepted wisdom and to scandalize the establishment afforded him an iconic status as a public intellectual - not just in France, where he made regular contributions to the national left-wing daily newspaper, Libération, but across much of the globe, where his texts and lecture tours led to his ideas being widely discussed and debated within academia and beyond; by artists, architects, photographers, writers, journalists, musicians, and filmmakers, among others.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2752/175174311X13069348235088

Publication date: 2011-11-01

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