The Perfect Crime by Jean Baudrillard, Chris Turner - 9781844672035

The Perfect CrimeAuthor(s): Jean Baudrillard, Chris Turner\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Verso Books, United Kingdom\nImprint: Verso Books\nISBN-13: 9781844672035, 978-1844672035\nSynopsis\nIn his new book, perhaps the most cogent expression of his mature thought, Jean Baudrillard turns detective in order to investigate a crime which he hopes may yet be solved: the \""murder\"" of reality. To solve the crime would be to unravel the social and technological processes by which reality has quite simply vanished under the deadly glare of media \""real time.\""\nBut Baudrillard is not merely intending to lament the disappearance of the real, an occurrence he recently described as \""the most important event of modern history,\"" nor even to meditate upon the paradoxes of reality and illusion, truth and its masks. The Perfect Crime is also the work of a great moraliste: a penetrating examination of vital aspects of the social, political and cultural life of the \""advanced democracies\"" in the (.