The Ecstasy of Communication (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)
By Jean Baudrillard.
Description
Baudrillard's essential crib-book, lexicon, and companion piece to any and all of his books and a prescient portrait of our contemporary condition.“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.”―from The Ecstasy of CommunicationFirst published in France in 1987, The Ecstasy of Communication was Baudrillard's summarization of his work for a postdoctoral degree at the Sorbonne: a dense, poetically crystalline essay that boiled down two deca...
ISBN(s)
1584350571, 9781584350576
