Table of Contents

1 Introduction: the double infidelity 2 From literary criticism to fiction-theory 3 Modern ambience of objects 4 Technology and culture: Baudrillard’s critique of McLuhan and Lefebvre 5 The rigours of consumer society 6 From production to reproduction 7 Modernity, simulation, and the hyperreal 8 Fashion, the body, sexuality, and death 9 Anagrammatic resolutions 10 Transpolitical objects 11 From the Beaubourg to the Bonaventure Hotel 12 Conclusion: the other Baudrillard

About the Author

Mike Gane is Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences at Loughborough University.

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`In this committed and important study, Mike Gane makes a case for Baudrillard as an important cultural critic ...' - The Sunday Times