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bryce_is_a_librarian's review against another edition
4.0
See Simulacrum. Or see this as the Signifier for the Signified Simulacrum.
neoludification's review against another edition
4.0
The pinnacle of 1990s-Baudrillard, which saw him at both his best and his worst. At this point, simulation was no longer a speculative hypothesis; it had become actual reality, however paradoxical that sounds. Here, Baudrillard confronts the situation through theory-fiction and brings to bear all of his key concepts on it. He is at his best when he examines the ambivalent cultural impacts of modern science, information technology, and capitalist globalization. Moreover, the book includes the essay "No Pity for Sarajevo," a great text not only because it demonstrates the wretched depths of Western hypocrisy regarding the Bosnian Genocide, but also because Baudrillard seems to have been one of the few intellectuals who managed to make such a critique without ever losing sight of the fact that the Serbs were committing said genocide. (Looking at you, Chomsky!) On the at-his-worst side of things, one may find several anti-feminist diatribes that are much harsher and much less productive than e.g. Seduction (1979) ever was. That earlier book was playful, outrageous, and exhilirating even if its premises were rather dubious. In The Perfect Crime, 'seduction' serves an almost exclusively reactionary purpose.
partypete's review against another edition
4.0
a provocative read to be sure, that certainly has not lost any relevance. having just deleted my twitter, i found many parts of this that spoke to my frustration of “virtual reality”
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