Jean Baudrillard ; edited by Sylvère Lotringer ; translated by Ames Hodges.
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New York :
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Semiotext(e),
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2005.
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247 pages ;
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23 cm.
SERIES
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Semiotext(e) foreign agents series
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-244) and index.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"In 1996 Jean Baudrillard scandalized the art world by denouncing a "conspiracy" of art. But most missed the point. He wasn't attacking art, because art has ceased to exist - only its claim to privilege. Spiraling from aesthetic nullity to commercial frenzy, art has entered a "transaesthetic" state. The Conspiracy of Art examines its complicitous dance with politics, economics, and media, including Abu Ghraib's reality show. Baudrillard reveals the premises of his "radical thought" in the absurdist logic of pataphysics (his first unpublished text on Alfred Jarry), and in the Theater of Cruelty (a talk on Antonin Artaud with life-long collaborator Sylvere Lotringer)."--Jacket.