Fragments: Cool Memories III, 1990-1995 (Radical Thinkers)
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| Rating | : | 4.38 (922 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1844675734 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 148 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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He retired from academia in 1987 to write books and travel until his death in 2007. . Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) began teaching sociology at the Université de Paris-X in 1966. His many works include Simulations and Simulacra, America, The Perfect Crime, The System of Objects, Passwords, The Transparency of Evil, The Spirit of Terrorism, and Fragments, among others
"interesting" according to GSI. i saw this book on my teacher's desk, so i bought it. i must say, as much as i like to philosophize, a lot of this was way over my head. but, on some pages, i found certain paragraphs that hit the spot.. "liberating,violin in water,colour in a hot-dog sexectoplasm" according to A Customer. If Jean Baudrillard wrote music it would indeed transcend the musical languages and styles of modernity to popular tex/mex forms,it would have the negativity of Schoenberg mixed with the traditional beauty of Mozart with the energy of Joanie Jett,the subversiveness of The Dead Kennedys and the directness of Sharon Crow;Baudrillard indeed has paid his dues writing from the late Sixties,he also became frustrated when the revolution didn't come as quickly as expected. His work today cuts across many genres. I know painters who don't paint until they read him first.. "Baudrillard's Table Talk--Under the Salt" according to Kevin Killian. "The fragment has its ideal" -- R. Barthes.It's a little expensive for such a slim book, but it's so dense you wouldn't really want it any longer. FRAGMENTS is a very overdetermined word, too, it makes you wonder why, after Kierkegaard and Barthes and all the other writers who used the word so precisely, if Baudrillard sanctions its use or is it a "clever" device of the translator?He's constantly fascinating, and quite a conversationalist, not a dull sentence in the book. Did you know that in Japanese there is no word for "the subject," nor for 'the universal,'
This third book in the Cool Memories series is culled from Baudrillard’s notebooks in the period when he was composing The Illusion of the End and The Perfect Crime. In it, he resumes his investigation of the meta-metaphysics of objects. Like its predecessors, the book is a work of brief meditations, of poetic musings: in a word, of fragments.
“Prophet of the apocalypse, hysterical lyricist of panic, obsessive recounter of the desolation of the postmodern scene and currently the hottest property on the New York intellectual circuit.”—Guardian“The most important French thinker of the past twenty years.”—J. Ballard“A sharp-shooting lone-ranger from the post-Marxist left.”—New York Times. G