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The Perfect crime

Author(s): Jean Baudrillard
Subject(s): Philosophy, Social Sciences, Media studies, History of Philosophy, Philosophical Traditions, Semiology, Aesthetics, Communication studies, Sociology, Contemporary Philosophy, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism, Marxism, Theory of Communication, Sociology of Culture
Published by: Beogradski krug
Keywords: media; simulation; reality; image; simulacrum
Summary/Abstract: In this book, author turns detective in order to investigate a crime considering the ¨murder¨ of Reality. To solve the crime would be to unravel the technological and social processes by which our world is becoming a thing of (empty) transparency and visibility, a place where reality, swamped by the ¨real time¨ of the news media, has quite simply vanished. But author is not merely intending to lament the disappearance of the real, an occurrence he recently described as ¨the most important event of modern history¨, nor even to meditate upon the paradoxes of reality and illusion, truth and its masks. The Perfect Crime is also the work of a great moralist: it is a penetrating examination of vital aspects of the social, political and cultural life of the ¨advanced democracies¨ in the (very) late twentieth century.

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