Revenge of the Crystal

Selected Writings on the Modern Object and Its Destiny, 1968-1983

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by Jean Baudrillard,

Edited by Julian Pefanis

Pluto Press

Due/Published February 1999, 200 pages, paper

ISBN 0745314430

Jean Baudrillard's work has enraged and baffled critics and commentators in the English speaking world for over twenty years. Has he gone beyond a joke? Or do his writings on the contemporary world and its significance offer us revelatory insights? _ This classic anthology of Baudrillard's writings is the first to provide the English reader with substantial translations of his major writings from the 1960s, through his critiques of consumption and Marxism in the 1970s, and his more speculative pronouncements in the 1980s on sexuality, the nature of politics in post-modern society and the effects of the image machine on our imaginations and systems of meaning. What these texts reveal most clearly is the extent of Baudrillard's reading of Marx and the subtlety of his thought concerning the fate of the object within society. The breadth of work presented provides the reader with the means of understanding this most provocative of thinkers. The classic introduction for anyone coming to Baudrillard for the first time and wanting to understand this often bewildering writer. * Reissue of a classic anthology of three decades of Baudrillards thought * The key introduction to this complex thinker