Title: The ecstasy of communication /
Authors: Baudrillard, Jean, 1929-2007
Publisher: Semiotext(e),
Year: 2012
Subjects: Human beings; Communication; Alienation (Social psychology)
Abstract: Obscenity begins when there is no more spectacle, no more stage, no more theatre, no more illusion, when everything becomes immediately transparent, visible, exposed in the raw and inexorable light of information and communication. We no longer partake of the drama of alienation, but are in the ecstasy of communication.
Contents: The ecstasy of communication -- Rituals of transparency -- Metamorphosis, metaphor, metastasis -- Seduction, or the superficial abyss -- From the system of objects to the destiny of the object -- Why theory?