A Marxist Reading of Young Baudrillard: Throughout His Ordered Masks

This book prefers a hard polemic on Baudrillards post-modern turn and deals in a direct and frontal debate against refutations claimed by early (young) Baudrillard to historical materialism and his deconstruction of Marxian theory of labor value. Making advantage of the brand-new method of Marxist context constitution the author makes a critical and detailed reading of Youth Baudrillards three most important academic books: For a Critique of Political Economy of Signs The Mirror of Production and Symbolic Exchange and Death. And he makes a deep analysis on the academic and thinking basis of the Young Baudrillard namely his logic of symbolic exchange based on grassroots romanticism inspired from Mauss-Bataille; Furthermore the author makes a clear distinction of the utmost secret transformative process of critical logic in the development of Baudrillards thinking: from the dissolution of the ideographic material to the symbolic value of coding structure then to the quasi-real existence without a model. And in the end the symbolic miscoding of death becomes the hopeless desire of Baudrillards tentative salvation of the world. This is a death trilogy which occurs in Baudrillards academic scenery and in which the real existence is murdered. The thought of late Baudrillard is something like a virus and paranoia. This kind of logical violence by theoretical violence has become an absurd modern academic cartoon in the excessive rational interpretation.