Develops a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notions of cultural production with notions of cultural expenditure. This book represents an effort to rethink cultural theory from the perspective of a concept of cultural materialism, one that radically redefines postmodern formulations of the body.

France's leading philosopher of postmodernism takes to the freeways of the New World. Baudrillard assembles images of light, distance, endless horizontal circulation, political indifference and, above all, simulation.

This guide traces the highly influential work of the postmodernist intellectual, Baudrillard, who has been hailed as one of the world's most subtle and powerful thinkers. His style and assaults on sociology, feminism and Marxism have exposed him to accusations of being the pimp of postmodernism.

A cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society, The System of Objects is a tour de force - a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all the live ideas of the day.

This work focuses on the processes and meaning of consumption in contemporary culture. Translated from the French, this reprint includes Jean Baudrillard's concepts of simulation and the simulacrum.

In this classic account of madness, Michel Foucault shows once and for all why he is one of the most distinguished European philosophers since the end of World War II.

This work describes, explains and warns Europe against following the road alreadly taken by the US and, perhaps not quite irreversibly, Britain by providing an account of life in high-risk, low-loyalty workplaces.

This volume is a polemical warning against a too easy rejection of the standards of truth and value in the modern world, and is a further sortie in Christopher Norris's prolonged battle with the wilder side of postmodernism, particularly with the exponents of deconstruction techniques.

By examining the social conditions of museum practices, this book shows that cultivated taste is not a natural gift but a socially inculcated disposition which is distributed unevenly, and which predisposes some to distinguish themselves through their love of art, while others are deprived of it.

Presents a radical reassessment of Jean Paul Sartre's work, the systematic study of Sartre's relationship to postmodernism. This book explores the differences and similarities between Sartrean existentialism and French poststructuralism. It highlights the value and relevance of Sartre's work to our postmodern times.

If Western philosophy has claimed to be a love of wisdom, it has forgotten to become a wisdom of love. Asking the question: How can we love each other? Irigaray presents an exploration of desire and the human heart.

This collection of papers provides a prismatic guide and reckoning to one of the most controversial and poorly understood writers of the present day. His work in relation to consumption, politics, feminism, culture, theory and postmodernity is clearly discussed and evaluated.

Includes a preface that explores the developments in consumer culture. This title looks at postmodernism and the development of contemporary theory after postmodernism. It provides an account of multiple and alternative modernities and the challenges of consumer culture in Japan and China.

Aimed at students and academics in social and cultural theory, this book presents Baurillard's critical appraisal of social theories as diverse as traditional Marxism, cybernetics, ethnography, psychoanalysis, feminist thought, communications theory and semiotics.

Jean Baudrillard is one of France's leading modern thinkers and a scholar whose work has necessitated major reassessments across several academic disciplines. This book comprises of his writings on postmodernism.

The Companion Species Manifesto is about the implosion of nature and culture in the joint lives of dogs and people, who are bonded in significant otherness . In all their historical complexity, Donna Haraway tells us, dogs matter. They are not surrogates for theory, she says; they are not here just to think with.

Revelations about the political misdeeds of Martin Heidegger and Paul de Man sent shock waves throughout European and North American intellectual circles. This title shows that postmodernism's infatuation with fascism has been widespread and not incidental.

An addition to Reaktion's Critical Lives series, which presents concise biographies of major figures alongside readable and cogent criticism of their work.

Human cultures are divided into two basic types, two antagonistic forces, one based on symbolic exchange, which is dual and reciprocal, and one based on money and sign exchange, which is totalising. A summation of Baudrillard's work over twenty years, this book is an analysis of the fundamental conflict.