Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism)
by Jean Baudrillard
Category: Social Science

Develops a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notions of cultural production with notions of cultural expenditure. This book represents an effort to rethink cultural theory from the perspective of a concept of cultural materialism, one that radically redefines postmodern formulations of the body.