Posted: March 16th, 2015

'We are in a universe where there is more and a more information,and less and less meaning'(Baudrillard).Do you agree?

‘We are in a universe where there is more and a more information,and less and less meaning'(Baudrillard).Do you agree?

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1.critical voice,connect things and chapters,do not just put it together.
2.reading staffs(original resources)
3..can not directly references, must paraphrase from reference
4.expand question

Required reading:(must use)
• Baudrillard, Jean (1983): ‘The Implosion of Meaning in the Media’ in In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities Semiotext(e), New York. pp. 95-110

Reading resources:
• Poster, Mark ed (1988): Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings Polity, Cambridge. ch 7 ‘Simulacra and Simulations’ pp. 166-184 or ch 9 ‘The Masses’ pp. 207-219.
• Kellner, Douglas (1988), ‘Postmodernism as Social Theory Some Challenges and Problems’, Theory Culture and Society, Vol 5/2-3, 239-270.
• Lyon, David (1994), Postmodernity, Milton Keynes: Open University Press.
• Lyotard, Jean-François (1984), The Postmodern Condition, Manchester. Manchester University Press.
• Smart, Barry (1992), Postmodernity, London: Routledge.
• Baudrillard, Jean (1983): In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities Semiotext(e), New York. esp pp. 1-65.
• Baudrillard, Jean (1990): Cool Memories Verso, London.
• Kellner, Douglas (1989): Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond Polity, Cambridge. ch 3 ‘Media, Simulations and the End of the Social’ pp. 60-92,

ch 4 ‘The Postmodern Carnival’ pp. 93-121 (on America see pp. 168-172).
• Gane, Mike (1991): Baudrillard’s Bestiary: Baudrillard and Culture ch 7 ‘Modernity, Simulation and the Hyperreal’ pp. 92-103.
• Gane, Mike (1991): Baudrillard: Critical and Fatal Theory Routlege, London ch 7 ‘Cultural Implosion’ pp. 129-142.
• Navemore, James and Brantlinger, Patrick eds (1991): Modernity and Mass Culture Indiana UP, Bloomington. ch 7 pp 135-157.
• Baudrillard, Jean (1988): America Verso, London.
• Gane, Mike (1991): Baudrillard: Critical and Fatal Theory Routlege, London. ch 10 ‘America, the Desert and the Fourth World’ pp. 178-190.
• Vidich, Arthur (1991): ‘Baudrillard’s America: Lost in the Ultimate Simulacrum’ Theory, Culture and Society vol 8 pp. 135-44.
• Rojek, Chris and Turner, Bryan (1993): Forget Baudrillard? Routledge, London ch 3 ‘Europe/America’ pp. 47-69, ch 4 ‘Baudrillard for Sociologists’ pp. 70-87, and ch 8

‘Cruising America’ pp. 146-161.
• Gundersen, Roy and Dobson, Stephen (1996): Baudrillard’s Journey to America Minerva Press, London.

course name:simulation and the ‘end of the social’?
How is the work of sociology (whatever this might be!) to continue in a (postmodern?) era of superficiality, playfulness and ironic self-referentiality? We look to the

writings of Jean Baudrillard, a controversial contemporary theorist, who asserts the obsolescence not only of traditional sociological concepts and theorising, but

even of the social itself. Baudrillard’s work explores ‘radical’ or ‘eccentric modernity’ in terms of a range of new models: simulations, hyperreality and the ecstasy

of communication. We focus on how the proliferation of media messages hollows out meaning and reduces the ‘masses’ to silence and hyperconformity.

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