Symbolic Exchange and Death
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Jean Baudrillard is one of the most celebrated and most controversial of contemporary social theorists. This major work, appearing in English for the first time, occupies a central place in the rethinking of the humanities and social sciences around the idea of postmodernism. It leads the reader on an exhilarating tour encompassing the end of Marxism, the enchantment of fashion, symbolism about sex and the body, and the relations between economic exchange and death. Most significantly, the book represents Baudrillard's fullest elaboration of the concept of the three orders of the simulacra, defining the historical passage from production to reproduction to simulation.
IntroductionPreface11The End of Production6The Structural Revolution of Value6The End of Production9Political Economy as a Model of Simulation31Labour and Death382The Order of Simulacra50The Three Orders of Simulacra50The Stucco Angel50The Automaton and the Robot53The Industrial Simulacrum55The Metaphysics of the Code57The Tactile and the Digital61The Hyperrealism of Simulation70Kool Killer, or The Insurrection of Signs763Fashion, or The Enchanting Spectacle of the Code87The Frivolity of the Deja Vu87The 'Structure' of Fashion89The Flotation of Signs92The 'Pulsion' of Fashion93Sex Refashioned95The Insubvertible984The Body, or The Mass Grave of Signs101The Marked Body101Secondary Nudity104Strip-tease107Planned Narcissism111Incestuous Manipulation112Models of the Body114Phallus Exchange Standard114Demagogy of the Body116Apologue118Zhuang-Zi's Butcher1195Political Economy and Death125The Extradition of the Dead125The Exchange of Death in the Primitive Order131Political Economy and Death144The Death Drive148Death in Bataille154My Death is Everywhere, my Death Dreams1586The Extermination of the Name of God195The Anagram195The Linguistic Imaginary213The Witz, or The Phantasm of the Economic in Freud222Bibliography of Works243Index249
