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The Mirror of Production (French: Le Miroir de la production) is a 1973 book by the French sociologist and philosopher Jean Baudrillard. It is a systematic critique of Marxism.
- Jean Baudrillard, Mark Poster
- 1973
us with a metaphor or "mirror" of production through which alone every aspect of social activity is intelligible. And so contemporary French theorists remain trapped in this conceptual cage: Althusser sees theory as a "production," Deleuze and Guattari give us an unconscious that is a "producer" of desire,
Mar 1, 1973 · A critique of Marxism & materialism. Baudrillard proves that analyzing societies (especially archaic cultures) under the "mirror of production" leads to a reductionist worldview, incapable of seeing beyond the surface. Contrary to his later works, Baudrillard is very precise and thorough in his argumentation, allowing for a ...
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Revolutionary thought - from Marx to Deleuze - merely replicates the obsession with production of classical political economy. Jean Baudrillard's provocative early study The Mirror of Production,...
- Jean Baudrillard
- Verso Books, 1975
- 1788734904, 9781788734905
- The Mirror of Production
In attempting to answer these questions, Jean Baudrillard examines the lessons of Marxism which has created a productivist model and a fetishism of labor. He argues that we must break the mirror...
Jun 1, 1975 · The Mirror of Production exposes the inherent contradictions of Marxism. Baudrillard finds these contradictions in every basic area in the Marxist universe — labor, value, and especially production.
- Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard's provocative early study The Mirror of Production, marks the point at which his thought breaks from the tenants of Marxism. Instead, Baudrillard seeks to go further than Marx, radicalising his thought by breaking with the capitalist logic of production in its entirety.
