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The Perfect Crime

Paperback • 2008 • English

The Perfect Crime

By Jean Baudrillard

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About the book

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 “murder” 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 “real time.” But Baudrillard is not merely intending to lament the disappearance of the real, an occurrence he recently described as “the most impo...Show more

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ISBN

9781844672035

Publisher

Verso Books

Published year

2008

Language

English

Original title

The Perfect Crime

Format

Paperback

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