{"product_id":"utopia-deferred-jean-baudrillard-9781584350330","title":"Utopia Deferred: Writings from Utopie (1967-1978)","description":"\u003cb\u003eSeminal essays written by Baudrillard for a journal devoted to a radical leftist critique of architecture, urbanism, and everyday life.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Utopie group was born in 1966 at Henri Lefebvre's house in the Pyrenees. The eponymous journal edited by Hubert Tonka brought together sociologists Jean Baudrillard, René Lourau, and Catherine Cot, architects Jean Aubert, Jean-Paul Jungmann, Antoine Stinco, and landscape architect Isabelle Auricoste. Over the next decade, both in theory and in practice, the group articulated a radical ultra-leftist critique of architecture, urbanism, and everyday life. Utopia Deferred collects all of the essays Jean Baudrillard published in Utopie as well as recent interviews with Jean Baudrillard and Hubert Tonka.Utopie served as a workshop for Baudrillard's thought. Many of the essays he first published in Utopie were seminal for some of his most shockingly original books: For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign, The Mirror of Production, Simulations, Symbolic Exchange and Death, and In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities. But Utopie was also a topical journal and a political one; the topics of these essays are often torn from the headlines of the tumultuous decade following the uprisings of May 1968.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jean Baudrillard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1584350334\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781584350330\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Semiotext(e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/25\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.94h x 6.00w x 0.93d","brand":"Jean Baudrillard","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48088591466751,"sku":"9781584350330","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6c529571-ee53-4186-8f33-23c42f3d4019.jpg?v=1769105623","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/utopia-deferred-jean-baudrillard-9781584350330","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}