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The Ecstasy of Communication (Paperback, new edition)
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The Ecstasy of Communication (Paperback, new edition)
Series: Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents
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Baudrillard's essential crib-book, lexicon, and companion piece to
any and all of his books and a prescient portrait of our
contemporary condition. "The need to speak, even if one has nothing
to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as
the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost its
meaning." -from The Ecstasy of Communication First published in
France in 1987, The Ecstasy of Communication was Baudrillard's
summarization of his work for a postdoctoral degree at the
Sorbonne: a dense, poetically crystalline essay that boiled down
two decades of radical, provocative theory into an aphoristically
eloquent swan song to twentieth-century alienation. Baudrillard's
quixotic effort to be recognized by the French intellectual
establishment may have been doomed to failure, but this text
immediately became a pinnacle to his work, a mid-career assessment
that looked both forward and back. By carefully distilling the most
radical elements of his previous books, Baudrillard constructed the
skeleton key to all of the work that was to come in the second half
of his career, and set the scene for what he termed the "obscene":
a world in which alienation has been succeeded by ceaseless
communication and information. The Ecstasy of Communication is a
decisive, compact description of what it means to be "wired" in our
braver-than-brave new world, where sexuality has been superseded by
pornography, knowledge by information, hysteria by schizophrenia,
subject by object, and violence by terror. The Ecstasy of
Communication is an anti-manifesto that confronted and dispensed
with such influences as Marshall McLuhan, Guy Debord, and Georges
Bataille. It is an essential crib-book, lexicon, and companion
piece to any and all of Baudrillard's books. Twenty-five years
after its original publication, it remains not only a prescient
portrait of our contemporary condition, but also a dark mirror into
which we have not yet dared to look.
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