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Book Description: Seagull Books, 2009. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Bookseller Inventory # 012234

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Book Description: Seagull Books London Ltd, United Kingdom, 2009. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 190 x 125 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. 'Behind every image, something has disappeared. And that is the source of its fascination,' writes French theorist Jean Baudrillard in "Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?" In this, one of the last texts written before his death in 2007, Baudrillard meditates poignantly on the question of disappearance. Throughout, he weaves an intricate set of variations on his theme, ranging from the potential disappearance of humanity as a result of the fulfillment of its goal of world mastery to the vanishing of reality due to the continual transmutation of the real into the virtual. Along the way, he takes in the more conventional question of the philosophical 'subject,' whose disappearance has, in his view, been caused by a 'pulverization of consciousness into all the interstices of reality'. Interspersed throughout the text are photographs by Alain Willaume that help illustrate Baudrillard's argument. Baudrillard insists that with disappearance, strange things happen - some things that were eliminated or repressed may return in destructive viral forms - yet at the same time, he reminds us that disappearance has a positive aspect, as a 'vital dimension' of the existence of things. Bookseller Inventory # AAH9781906497408

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Book Description: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Hardback. Book Condition: New. New book. Shipped from UK. Bookseller Inventory # WG-9781906497408

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Book Description: Seagull Books, 2009. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. NA (illustrator). First edition. NA. ?Behind every image, something has disappeared. And that is the source of its fascination,? writes French theorist Jean Baudrillard in Why Hasn?t Everything Already Disappeared? In this, one of the last texts written before his death in 2007, Baudrillard meditates poignantly on the question of disappearance. Throughout, he weaves an intricate set of variations on his theme, ranging from the potential disappearance of humanity as a result of the fulfillment of its goal of world mastery to the vanishing of reality due to the continual transmutation of the real into the virtual. Along the way, he takes in the more conventional question of the philosophical ?subject,? whose disappearance has, in his view, been caused by a ?pulverization of consciousness into all the interstices of reality.? Interspersed throughout the text are photographs by Alain Willaume that help illustrate Baudrillard?s argument. Baudrillard insists that with disappearance, strange things happen?some things that were eliminated or repressed may return in destructive viral forms? yet at the same time, he reminds us that disappearance has a positive aspect, as a ?vital dimension? of the existence of things. French theorist Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) was one of the foremost intellectual figures of the present age whose work combines philosophy, social theory and an idiosyncratic cultural metaphysics that reflects on key events of the epoch. Some of his major works include The System of Objects (1968), Simulacra and Simulation (1981), The Gulf War Did Not Take Place (1991) and Utopia Deferred (2006). Printed Pages: 72. Bookseller Inventory # 3729

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Book Description: Seagull Books London Ltd, Greenford, 2009. Book Condition: New. Bookseller Inventory # 8938601

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Book Description: Seagull Books. Book Condition: New. pp. vi + 77, Frontispiece In this, one of the last written before his death in March 2007, Baudrillard meditates poignantly on the question of 'disappearance. I le weaves an intricate set of variations on his theme, ranging from the potential disappearance of humanity as a result of the fulfilment of its project of World mastery to the vanishing of reality through the transmutation of the real into the virtual. On the way, he takes in the more conventional question of the philosophical 'subject', whose disappearance has, in his view, been effected through a 'pul-verization of consciousness into all the interstices of r. Bookseller Inventory # 8355647

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Book Description: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 190 by 125 mm. (Hardback). Bookseller Inventory # AC1906497400

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Book Description: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Hardback. Book Condition: New. New book. Shipped from UK. Bookseller Inventory # WG-9781906497408

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