Symbolic Exchange and Death by Baudrillard, Jean -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Introduction Preface

Notes

1 The End of Production

The Structural Revolution of Value The End of Production

Labour Wages Money Strikes

Political Economy as a Model of Simulation Labour and Death Notes

2 The Order of Simulacra

The Three Orders of Simulacra The Stucco Angel The Automaton and the Robot The Industrial Simulacrum The Metaphysics of the Code The Tactile and the Digital The Hyperrealism of Simulation Kool Killer, or The Insurrection of Signs Notes

3 Fashion, or the Enchanting Spectacle of the Code

The Frivolity of the Déjà Vu The 'Structure' of Fashion The Flotation of Signs The 'Pulsion'2 of Fashion Sex Refashioned The Insubvertible Notes

4 The Body, or the Mass Grave of Signs

The Marked Body Secondary Nudity Strip-Tease Planned Narcissism Incestuous Manipulation Models of the Body Phallus Exchange Standard Demagogy of the Body Apologue Zhuang-Zi's Butcher Notes

5 Political Economy and Death

The Extradition of the Dead

Survival, or the Equivalent to Death The Ghetto beyond the Grave Death Power

The Exchange of Death in the Primitive Order

Symbolic/Real/Imaginary The Inevitable Exchange The Unconscious and the Primitive Order The Double and the Split

Political Economy and Death The Death Drive Death in Bataille My Death Is Everywhere, My Death Dreams

Punctual Death, Biological Death The Accident and the Catastrophe 'Natural' Death Natural Death and Sacrificial Death The Death Penalty Security as Blackmail Funeral Homes and Catacombs The Dereliction of Death The Exchange of Disease Sexualised Death and Deadly Sex My Death Is Everywhere, My Death Dreams

Notes

6 The Extermination of the Name of God

The Anagram

The Poetic as the Extermination of Value The End of the Anathema The Nine Billion Names of God

The Linguistic Imaginary The Witz, or the Phantasm of the Economic in Freud

An Anti-Materialist Theory of Language Beyond the Unconscious

Notes

Bibliography of Works by Jean Baudrillard Index