用他经常是小说式的表述和论证取代了最顽固的现代正统，鲍德里亚的写作引起了巨大的争议，并强迫读者来对他的思想是超越了既在的立场的进步还是落后于之的倒退作出自己的表决。 大多数评论家都努力要么赞颂他要么攻击他，这部批评性的读本意在首次对鲍德里亚对当代思想的贡献作出真正中肯的评估，认真却从不不加思考地对待鲍氏的著作，受托写这卷文集的这些作者质询了鲍氏从其早期关于“客体系统”的著作到最近他对主体的命运所作的形而上的沉思中的各种特殊主题、领域及争论。 将有益的与无益的、有价值的与愚蠢的、严肃的与戏谑的、重要的与不重要的区分开，这部论鲍氏的最新文集对于所有当代文化理论的研习者来说都是一本必备的读本。

The images from Abu Ghraib are as murderous for America as those of the World Trade Center in flames. The whole West is contained in the burst of sadistic laughter of the American soldiers, as it is behind the construction of the Israeli wall. This is where the truth of these images lies. Truth, but not veracity. As virtual as the war itself, their specific violence adds to the specific violence of the war.In The Conspiracy of Art, Baudrillard questions the privilege attached to art by its practitioners. Art has lost all desire for illusion: feeding back endlessly into itself, it has turned its own vanishment into an art unto itself. Far from lamenting the "end of art," Baudrillard celebrates art's new function within the process of insider-trading. Spiraling from aesthetic nullity to commercial frenzy, art has become transaesthetic, like society as a whole.Conceived and edited by life-long Baudrillard collaborator Sylvere Lotringer, The Conspiracy of Art presents Baudrillard's writings on art in a complicitous dance with politics, economics, and media. Culminating with "War Porn," a scathing analysis of the spectacular images from Abu Ghraib prison as a new genre of reality TV, the book folds back on itself to question the very nature of radical thought.

Jean Baudrillard, alternately provocative and astonishing, is one of the leading theorists of media and culture. Regarded by many as the chief prophet of postmodernism, his writings raise important issues about the changing nature of social and political life in our contemporary, media--saturated age. This book makes his most important writings available in a single volume. It includes selections from the entire range of his work, from his early writings on consumer culture and the political economy of the sign to his more recent work on desire, simulation and the a hyperreala . This new edition includes five new extracts from Baudrillarda s writings in the 1990s, including his writings on the Gulf War, on the internet and his autobiographical reflections. It also includes an updated introduction by Mark Poster which provides an extremely lucid overview of Baudrillarda s work. Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings is an excellent introduction to the thought of one of the most important and influential thinkers of our day.

Now available in English for the first time, Jean Baudrillard's classic text was one of the first to focus on the process and meaning of consumption in contemporary culture. Originally published in 1970, the book still makes a vital contribution to current debates on consumption. Many of the themes which would make Baudrillard famous appear here for the first time. The book includes Baudrillard's most organized discussion of mass media culture, the meaning of leisure and anomie in affluent society. A chapter on the body demonstrates Baudrillard's extraordinary prescience for flagging vital subjects in contemporary culture long before others. This English translation begins with an introductory essay by George Ritzer.

劳动和生产概念还能分析当代资本主义社会吗？这些概念是不是资本主义社会的意识形态幻象？在消费社会，当阶级的界限逐渐模糊时，如何发现批判当代资本主义社会的主体？为了四答这些问题，鲍德里亚从当代资本主义社会的转型——从组织化资本主义社会到消费社会——出发，认为仅从生产出发来批判当代资本主义社会的理论，是资本主义意识形态的另一种反映，他认为必须打破体现资本主义而上学的生产之镜，寻求新的批判策略。

法国思想家让·鲍德里亚说：在某种意义上说，我们并不相信2000年。这样的说法已经够让人不安了。可是，他还有一个更加令人不安的说法：千禧年可能不会出现。对他千年虫的分析为我们展现了一个痴心于记忆、哀悼、清选其过去的不断进行自我忏悔的文化，描绘了一个甚至连历史的终结都已经消失了的世界。可是，在这个灰色的现实图景背后，鲍德里亚又向我们揭示出，我们依稀还有一丝可能性尚存，而且最后甚至还可能会有一个令人啼笑皆非的突然转变。 　　《鲍德里亚与千禧年》一书阐述了鲍德里亚这位重要的文化分析家关于后现代时期的这种极端的无为状况的思想，剖析了诸多批评家对其思想体系进行的指责和批评。该书探讨的主题诸如自然灾难，肉体、受害者文化、身份和互联网病毒等核心概念，映现出鲍德里亚的千禧年思想自1980年代至2000年的发展过程——从拟像到消亡。

本書是當今後現代大師布希亞最重要的著作之一。作者認為，後現代的文化現象充滿了他所謂的「擬像活動」，現實界已然消失，擬像也非傳統模仿論所言對現實的擬仿，而是虛構物的再仿複製。所以，整個後現代的社會乃是一個超越現實的場域。作者對後現代的文化現象剖析入微，所提出的理論設構及術語在人文及社會學科內均已被廣泛引用。 目 錄 ‧關於布希亞的它方與它者 ‧擬仿物的形構進程 ‧歷史：退卻的劇景 ‧《末世災厄》 ‧《中國症候》 ‧《現代啟示錄》 ‧波爾堡效應：內爆與倒退 ‧超市場與超商品 ‧意義在媒體中的內爆 ‧全然的廣告，零度地基的廣告 ‧複製體的故事 ‧幻象投影機 ‧《潰撞》 ‧擬仿物與科幻小說 ‧動物：地盤與變身 ‧餘留物 ‧迴轉不停的屍身 ‧價值的最後探戈 ‧說嘴虛無主義