The Cultural Theorist's Book of Quotations by Berger Arthur Asa;

Author:Berger, Arthur Asa; [Berger, Arthur Asa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2010-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

For Baudrillard, contemporary society is a postmodern society which is no longer structured by production in which the individual conforms to its needs but by symbolic exchange. It is a heterogeneous society of different groups with their own codes and practices of everyday life at the level of discourse, lifestyles, bodies, sexuality, communication, etc. and it involves the rejection of the logic of production and its instrumental rationality that dominated the modernist society of capitalism. Capitalism now has been replaced by a consumer society which is characterized by a proliferation of signs, the media and messages, environmental design, cybernetic steering systems, contemporary art and a sign culture. It is a society of simulations based on the new forms of technology and culture…. A world of hyper-reality is created in which everything in the world is simulated in the sense that models created by images replace the real.

David F. Walsh

“Subject/Object.” In Chris Jenks, ed. Core Sociological Dichotomies. London: Sage. 1998.

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