Utopia Deferred
Writings from Utopie (1967–1978)
$41.75
- Paperback
300 pages
- Release Date
25 August 2006
Summary
Seminal essays written by Baudrillard for a journal devoted to a radical leftist critique of architecture, urbanism, and everyday life.The Utopie group was born in 1966 at Henri Lefebvre’s house in the Pyrenees. The eponymous journal edited by Hubert Tonka brought together sociologists Jean Baudrillard, Rene Lourau, and Catherine Cot, architects Jean Aubert, Jean-Paul Jungmann, Antoine Stinco, and landscape architect Isabelle Auricoste. Over the next decade, both in theory and in practice, th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781584350330 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1584350334 |
| Author: | Jean Baudrillard, Stuart Kendall |
| Publisher: | Autonomedia |
| Imprint: | Semiotext |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 300 |
| Release Date: | 25 August 2006 |
| Weight: | 499g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Utopia Deferred |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
“A symbiosis between a few architects and young intellectuals effectively occurred at the end of the 1960s. Their intention was to surpass architecture, just as urbanism had been surpassed and as the Situationists liquidated the university. Everyone within Utopie was trying to go as far as possible toward disappearance, just to see what would happen out there. We were looking for a point of intellectual gravity from which it would have been possible to radiate out to all disciplines.” - Jean Baudrillard, Utopia Deferred”
About The Author
Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) was a philosopher, sociologist, cultural critic, and theorist of postmodernity who challenged all existing theories of contemporary society with humor and precision. An outsider in the French intellectual establishment, he was internationally renowned as a twenty-first century visionary, reporter, and provocateur.
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