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The Ecstasy of Communication

Paperback • 2012 • English

The Ecstasy of Communication

By Jean Baudrillard

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About the book

"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 CommunicationFirst 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 sw...Show more

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9781584350576

Publisher

Semiotext (E)

Published year

2012

Language

English

Original title

The Ecstasy of Communication

Format

Paperback

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