Baudrillard : a critical reader

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Notes on Contributors. Introduction: Baudrillard in the Fin--de--Millennium: Douglas Kellner (University of Texas). 1. The System of Objects and the Commodification of Everyday Life: The Early Baudrillard: Mark Gottdiener (University of California). 2. The Commodification of Reality and the Reality of Commodification: Baudrillard, Debord, and Postmodern Theory: Steven Best (University of Texas). 3. Technology and Culture in Habermas and Baudrillard: Mark Poster (University of California). 4. Baudrillard, Marketing, and Tele--Communication: Kim Sawchuck. 5. Fashion and the Signification of Social Order: Efrat Tseelon (Leeds Metropolitan University). 6. Fatal Forms: Toward a (Neo)Formal Sociological Theory of Media Culture: Jonathan S. Epstein and Margaarete J. Epstein (Kent State University and University of North Carolina). 7. Symbolic Exchange in Hyperreality: Deborah Cook (University of Windsor, Canada). 8. Capitalism and the Code: A Critique of Baudrillarda s Third Order Simulacrum: Sara Schoonmaker (Colgate University). 9. Simulation: The Highest Stage of Capitalism?: James Der Derian (University of Massachusetts). 10. Aesthetic Production and Cultural Politics: Baudrillard and Contemporary Art: Timothy W. Luke (Virginia Polytechnic Institute). 11. Baudrillard, Modernism, and Postmodernism: Nicholas Zurbrugg (Griffith University, Australia). 12. Baudrillarda s Feminist Provocations: A. Keith Goshorn. 13. The Drama of Theory: Vengeful Objects and Wily Props: Gary Genosko (Goldsmiths College, University of London). 14. Baudrillard, Time and the End: William Bogard (Whitman College). A Bibliography of the Works of Jean Baudrillard.