Index

Adorno, Theodor 54 advertising 125--6 AIDS 153 ambience 13 Amerique 160 anthropology 81 art 52, 55, 60-71, 89

disappearance 66

Barthes, Roland 22 Bataille, Georges 78 Baudrillard, Jean

in America 161-5 anti-humanism 1 02 born 6 domestic environment 17 and society 131-45 travels 160 who is he? 4-5 Bauhaus 56

Calvinism 75 cannibalism 102 capitalism 8-10, 12-13, 113

linguistics and semiology 34 sign as accomplice of 43 as simulation 116 and slavery 82 see also hypercapitalism choice 20 class 23 consumer defined 18-19 consumption 9, 14-15, 17-32, 61

and art 65 and culture 50 and need 39 Cool Memories 160 counterfeit 105--6, 109 Critique of Everyday Life 7 culture 49-62

and anthropology 81 of design 59 cyberblitz 57

death 79, 94 Debord, Guy Ernest 12 deconstruction 47 Derrida, Jacques 47 design 56, 59 destruction 78 discourses 86-7

ecstasy 148-9

education 116 Enzenberger, Hans Magnus 122 exploitation 82, 100 extremes 146, 157

false image see counterfeit fatal strategies 145-7 feminism 91-2, 100-1 films 126-7 forgery in art 63-4, 69 Foucault, Michel 85 Frankfurt School of Marxism 53-5 freedom 167 Freud, Sigmund 27 fun system, the 30 functionalism 16, 57-8

Galbraith, John Kenneth 19 gambling 99 God 158 Gropius, Walter 56 Gulf War, the 118-20

Halley, Peter 70 history, deconstruction 167 hypercapitalism 73-6 hyperreality 108-9 hypertelia 153

ideology defined 41 illusion 115 industrial society 1 07 lrigaray, Luce 93

Jakobson, Roman 123

Kellner, Douglas 3, 164 Koons, Jeff 69-71 Kostabi, Mark 69-70

labour, concept of 7 4 Lacan's Mirror 83 language 22, 43 Lefebvre, Henri 7

Marcuse, Herbert 54 Marx, Karl 7-9, 37 Marxism 53-5, 73-5

slavery 82 mass

consumption see consumption reproduction 52 masses, the 136-9 Mauss, Marcel 32 McLuhan, Herbert Marshall 121

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