Simultaneously a compendium, a retrospective, and a menu a la carte, Passwords captures the full range of Jean Baudrillard's rebellious social genius. Sixteen points of entry---from the object and the virtual, to seduction and the transparency of evil---draw readers into a knockoff world of fantasy and calamity that could only be our own. Passwords serves as both an accessible introduction and a guide to the deeper connections running through almost four decades of the author's thought.
`No French intellectual matches Jean Baudrillard in contemplating the New World... a sharp-shooting lone ranger of the post-Marxist left.'---New York Times
`Rarely do words convey such urgency as on a page by Baudrillard.'---Los Angeles Times
In his analysis of the deep social trends rooted in production, consumption, and the symbolic, Jean Baudrillard touches the very heart of the concerns of the generation currently rebelling against the framework of the consumer society. With the ever-greater mediatization of society, Baudrillard argues that we are witnessing the virtualization of our world, a disappearance of reality itself, and perhaps the impossibility of any exchange at all. This disenchanted perspective has become the rallying point for all those who reject the traditional sociological and philosophical paradigms of our age.
Passwords offers us twelve accessible and enjoyable entry points into Baudrillard's thought by way of the concepts he uses throughout his work: the object, seduction, value, impossible exchange, the obscene, the virtual, symbolic exchange, the transparency of evil, the perfect crime, destiny, duality, and thought.
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