{"product_id":"the-ecstasy-of-communication-new-edition-paperback","title":"The Ecstasy of Communication, New Edition - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJean Baudrillard\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJean-Louis Violeau\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBaudrillard's essential crib-book, lexicon, and companion piece to any and all of his books and a prescient portrait of our contemporary condition.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e--from \u003ci\u003eThe Ecstasy of Communication\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in France in 1987, \u003ci\u003e The Ecstasy of Communication\u003c\/i\u003e 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 swan song to twentieth-century alienation. Baudrillard's quixotic effort to be recognized by the French intellectual establishment may have been doomed to failure, but this text immediately became a pinnacle to his work, a mid-career assessment that looked both forward and back. By carefully distilling the most radical elements of his previous books, Baudrillard constructed the skeleton key to all of the work that was to come in the second half of his career, and set the scene for what he termed the \"obscene\" a world in which alienation has been succeeded by ceaseless communication and information. \u003ci\u003eThe Ecstasy of Communication\u003c\/i\u003e is a decisive, compact description of what it means to be \"wired\" in our braver-than-brave new world, where sexuality has been superseded by pornography, knowledge by information, hysteria by schizophrenia, subject by object, and violence by terror. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ecstasy of Communication\u003c\/i\u003e is an anti-manifesto that confronted and dispensed with such influences as Marshall McLuhan, Guy Debord, and Georges Bataille. It is an essential crib-book, lexicon, and companion piece to any and all of Baudrillard's books. Twenty-five years after its original publication, it remains not only a prescient portrait of our contemporary condition, but also a dark mirror into which we have not yet dared to look.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJean Baudrillard (1929-2007) was a philosopher, sociologist, cultural critic, and theorist of postmodernity who challenged all existing theories of contemporary society with humor and precision. An outsider in the French intellectual establishment, he was internationally renowned as a twenty-first century visionary, reporter, and provocateur. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJean-Louis Violeau is a sociologist and researcher at the \"Architecture-Culture-Société\" laboratory of the Ecole d'architecture de Paris-Malaquais in Paris. His most recent book is \u003ci\u003eLes Architectes et Mai 68\u003c\/i\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.21 x 9.05 x 6.07 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 30, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53496490721587,"sku":"9781584350576","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/YDilTgMTG89781584350576.webp?v=1781599681","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-ecstasy-of-communication-new-edition-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}