This book relates Baudrillard's work to contemporary social r4248y. The author traces the connections between Baudrillard's work and Marx and Marxism; Lefebvre and structuralist method; the works of Saussure, Bataille, Barthes, Foucault, Mauss, Peirce, McLuhan and the Prague School. The result is an authoritative and stimulating account of Baudrillard and modern social theory.

Introduction: Signs must burn! 1. Bar games 2. Simulation and semiosis 3. Varieties of symbolic exchange 4. Empty signs and extravagant objects Conclusion: Signs of Baudrillard