SAARUTU · Socioanalysis and Alien Anthropology Research Unit at Theory Underground · Brief Library
Across the whole corpus
Written across Baudrillard's whole body of work rather than on any single text.
Master Reference
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1968 · His first book: a structural inventory of the object — functional, non-functional, and metafunctional systems — where consumption is decoded as the systematic play of signs, and objects become a language before they are ever used.
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1970 · Consumption reconstructed not as the use of things but as a code of signs and differences that classifies persons and reproduces the social order — closing on the claim that the consumer society is its own myth.
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1972 · The formal apparatus of the whole corpus: the four logics of value and the isolation of sign-value, built across eleven essays on the object, need, fetishism, art, and the media.
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1973 · The critique turned against Marxism itself — which universalizes production and labor and reads them back into history and nature, and so mirrors capital rather than breaking with it.
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1976 · The counter-principle named: the reversible, ambivalent exchange the law of value excludes — and the genealogy of the three orders of simulacra, worked out here for the first time.
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1978 · The masses read as the end of the social — an absorbing surface that neutralizes meaning rather than carrying it, with silence and hyperconformity as the forms refusal now takes.
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1979 · Against production and interpretation: seduction as the reversible play of appearances that the entire regime of depth, truth, and sex must exclude — ending in the cold, ludic seduction of the networks.
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1981 · The theory of simulation in full: the generation by models of a real without origin, the precession of the model before the territory, the liquidation of every referential, the hyperreal, and deterrence.
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1995 · The late metaphysics of illusion and disappearance: the murder of the real and the extermination of the radical illusion that was the world's native condition, carried out by the drive to make everything visible and real.
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