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Why Everything Has Not Disappeared Author: [France] Jean Baudrillard Translator: Zhang Xiaoming Publisher: Nanjing University Press
Why Everything Has Not Disappeared Author: [France] Jean Baudrillard Translator: Zhang Xiaoming Publisher: Nanjing University Press
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This book contains three articles by the famous French thinker Jean Baudrillard, namely "Carnival and Cannibals - Games of Worlds Against Each Other", "Ventriloquism in the Conclave", and "Why Everything Has Not Disappeared". The author imagines modernity as an adventure that began in Western Europe and a huge farce that was subsequently repeated all over the world, in all places where Western religious, technological, economic, and political values were imported. Under the global media-virtual-network monopoly or hegemony, human existence can obviously only be achieved at the cost of its own demise. He can only achieve immortality at the cost of his own disappearance at the technical level and integration into the order of digital technology.
About the Author
Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) taught at Paris X University and Paris IX University, and wrote a series of works analyzing contemporary social and cultural phenomena and criticizing contemporary capitalism, which have a significant impact worldwide. In addition to the Cold Memory series, his major representative works include The System of Objects, Consumer Society, Mirror of Production, Symbolic Exchange and Death, On Seduction, America, Critique of the Political Economy of the Symbol, and A Perfect Crime.
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