The first full-length translation in English of an essential work of postmodernist thought
AI导读
核心看点
提出拟像与仿真理论,揭示符号取代真实的超真实秩序
深度解析迪士尼乐园作为超真实模型,掩盖社会非真实本质
阐述信息爆炸时代意义消解,批判后现代社会的虚无主义
适合谁读
后现代哲学、社会学及文化研究领域的学术研究者
对《黑客帝国》等科幻作品理论渊源感兴趣的读者
希望深入理解当代媒体、消费社会运作逻辑的思考者
读前提醒
全书理论晦涩难懂,建议重点精读第一章核心论述
需具备一定哲学基础,否则易陷入术语迷宫难以理解
可结合《黑客帝国》等流行文化案例辅助理解抽象概念
读者共识
理论极具洞察力但写作风格晦涩,阅读体验极具挑战
第一章为全书精华,后续章节多为具体案例的论证
深刻影响当代文化研究,是理解后现代主义必读经典
本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成,不等同于全文精读。
精彩摘录
"我们处在这样一个字宙之中,在其中,信息越来越多,而意义越来越少。"
"Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real, whereas all of Los Angeles and the America that surrounds it are no longer real, but belong to the hyperreal order and to the order of simulation. It is no longer a question of a false representation of reality ("
"This world wants to be childish in order to make us believe that the adults are elsewhere, in the 'real' world, and to conceal the fact that true childishness is everywhere - that it is that of the adults themselves who come here to act the child in order to foster illusions as to their real childis"
"Representation stems from the principle of the equivalence of the sign and of the real (even if this equivalence is utopian, it is a fundamental axiom). Simulation, on the contrary, stems from the utopia of the principle of equivalence, from the radical negation of the sign as value, from the sign a"
"Such would be the successive phases of the image: it is the reflection of a profound reality; it masks and denatures a profound reality; it masks the absence of a profound reality; it has no relation to any reality whatsoever: it is its own pure simulacrum."
"This world wants to be childish in order to make us believe that the adults are elsewhere, in the "real" world, and to conceal the fact that true childishness is everywhere --- that it is that of the adults themselves who come here to act the child in order to foster illusions as to their real child"
"Capital, immortal and without scruples, can only function behind a moral superstructure, and whoever revives this public morality (through indignation, denunciation, etc.) works spontaneously for the order of capital."
"And all the recrimination that replaces revolutionary thought today comes back to incriminate capital for not following the rules of the game. "power is unjust, its unjust, its justice is a class justice, capital exploits us, etc." ---as if capital were liked by a contract to the society it rules. I"
作者简介
Jean Baudrillard was a French sociologist, philosopher, cultural theorist, political commentator, and photographer.