The Ecstasy of Communication. Critical remarks on Jean Baudrillard
The socio-cultural criticism of Jean Baudrillard (born 1929), spans from the political turmoil of France in the late-1960s, to the mediatised world of the 1990s and early 21st century.1 In this process his provocative work on the socio-political role of signs, symbolic exchange, simulation, and hyp...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
University of Johannesburg
2022-10-01
|
| Series: | Communicare |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/jcsa/article/view/1739 |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| _version_ | 1832593777891475456 |
|---|---|
| author | Pieter Duvenage |
| author_facet | Pieter Duvenage |
| author_sort | Pieter Duvenage |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description |
The socio-cultural criticism of Jean Baudrillard (born 1929), spans from the political turmoil of
France in the late-1960s, to the mediatised world of the 1990s and early 21st century.1 In this
process his provocative work on the socio-political role of signs, symbolic exchange, simulation,
and hyperreality has important implications for communication studies – and more specifically
communication theory. The point is that with the “… greater mediatization of society … we are
witnessing the virtualization of our world.”2 This contribution briefly reconstructs, firstly, two phases
in Baudrillard’s intellectual career – phases that shifted from an early neo-Marxist critique of the
modern consumer society to a post-Marxist or postmodern view of society (which include
engagements with socio-anthropology; psychoanalysis, sociology, semiology and media theory),
and eventually ends in a kind of anti-theory with an extreme fatal vision of the world.3 In section
2 the implications of these two shifts in Baudrillard’s intellectual career are contextualized in the
field of media and communication studies – and specifically his concept of the “ecstasy of
communication”. Finally (in Section 3) some critical remarks are made on Baudrillard’s fascinating,
but problematic, project.
|
| format | Article |
| id | doaj-art-7345d055b1b64751912b33786cf50b4d |
| institution | Kabale University |
| issn | 0259-0069 2957-7950 |
| language | English |
| publishDate | 2022-10-01 |
| publisher | University of Johannesburg |
| record_format | Article |
| series | Communicare |
| spelling | doaj-art-7345d055b1b64751912b33786cf50b4d2025-01-20T08:52:12ZengUniversity of JohannesburgCommunicare0259-00692957-79502022-10-0125210.36615/jcsa.v25i2.1739The Ecstasy of Communication. Critical remarks on Jean BaudrillardPieter Duvenage0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1307-4255University of the Free State The socio-cultural criticism of Jean Baudrillard (born 1929), spans from the political turmoil of France in the late-1960s, to the mediatised world of the 1990s and early 21st century.1 In this process his provocative work on the socio-political role of signs, symbolic exchange, simulation, and hyperreality has important implications for communication studies – and more specifically communication theory. The point is that with the “… greater mediatization of society … we are witnessing the virtualization of our world.”2 This contribution briefly reconstructs, firstly, two phases in Baudrillard’s intellectual career – phases that shifted from an early neo-Marxist critique of the modern consumer society to a post-Marxist or postmodern view of society (which include engagements with socio-anthropology; psychoanalysis, sociology, semiology and media theory), and eventually ends in a kind of anti-theory with an extreme fatal vision of the world.3 In section 2 the implications of these two shifts in Baudrillard’s intellectual career are contextualized in the field of media and communication studies – and specifically his concept of the “ecstasy of communication”. Finally (in Section 3) some critical remarks are made on Baudrillard’s fascinating, but problematic, project. https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/jcsa/article/view/1739socio-cultural criticismJean Baudrillardpolitical turmoilFranceprovocativesocio-politica |
| spellingShingle | Pieter Duvenage The Ecstasy of Communication. Critical remarks on Jean Baudrillard Communicare socio-cultural criticism Jean Baudrillard political turmoil France provocative socio-politica |
| title | The Ecstasy of Communication. Critical remarks on Jean Baudrillard |
| title_full | The Ecstasy of Communication. Critical remarks on Jean Baudrillard |
| title_fullStr | The Ecstasy of Communication. Critical remarks on Jean Baudrillard |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Ecstasy of Communication. Critical remarks on Jean Baudrillard |
| title_short | The Ecstasy of Communication. Critical remarks on Jean Baudrillard |
| title_sort | ecstasy of communication critical remarks on jean baudrillard |
| topic | socio-cultural criticism Jean Baudrillard political turmoil France provocative socio-politica |
| url | https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/jcsa/article/view/1739 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT pieterduvenage theecstasyofcommunicationcriticalremarksonjeanbaudrillard AT pieterduvenage ecstasyofcommunicationcriticalremarksonjeanbaudrillard |