The Perfect Crime (Radical Thinkers)

The Perfect Crime (Radical Thinkers)

In his new book, perhaps the most cogent expression of his mature thought, Jean Baudrillard turns detective in order to investigate a crime which he hopes may yet be solved: the â€œmurderâ€ of reality. To solve the crime would be to unravel the social and technological processes by which reality has quite simply vanished under the deadly glare of media â€œreal time.â€

But Baudrillard is not merely intending to lament the disappearance of the real, an occurrence he recently described as â€œthe most important event of modern history,â€ nor even to meditate upon the paradoxes of reality and illusion, truth and its masks. The Perfect Crime is also the work of a great moraliste: a penetrating examination of vital aspects of the social, political and cultural life of the â€œadvanced democraciesâ€ in the (very) late twentieth century. Where critics like McLuhan once exposed the alienating consequences of â€œthe medium,â€ Baudrillard lays bare the depredatory effects of an oppressive transparency on our social lives, of a relentless positivity on our critical faculties, and of a withering â€˜high definitionâ€™ on our very sense of reality.
Country USA
Brand Verso
Manufacturer Verso
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber new18-20150810-b012598
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2008-01-17
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781844672035

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