[(Baudrillard Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts )] [Author: Kim Toffoletti] [Jan-2011]

Reframed (Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts)

by Kim Toffoletti

Jean Baudrillard has been a unique intellectual voice in many of the key debates and issues facing an increasingly globalised, media-driven world. Baudrillard Reframed offers the arts student and others working with Baudrillard's ideas an accessible overview of his better known arguments, as well as extending beyond them to critically engage with his radical notions of illusion, singularity and the fatal. Kim Toffoletti surveys the ideas of this influential - often provocative - French thinker as they relate to todayis image-saturated environment. She demonstrates their relevance to analysing contemporary visual phenomena such as advertising, photography, reality TV, fashion, art, pornography and virtual reality. Baudrillard's key themes and arguments are illustrated through a range of visual works, from the graffiti art of Banksy and Katherine Hamnett's protest t-shirts, to Sophie Calle's photography.

Genres: Philosophy, Nonfiction

Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 2010

Reviews

[Uğur · Rating 5 out of 5]

Baudrillard questioned the role of the mass media and especially the visual media (we can add the virtual world to this) on the basis of society, and the nature of individual and social identity, which is evaluated in terms of consumption-image, consumption-status, consumption-identity,
Consumer Society
Consumer Society ,
Simulacra and Simulation
Simulacra and Simulation,
In the Shadow of the Silent Masses: The End of the Social
In the Shadow of the Silent Masses: The End of the Social,
Transparency of Evil
Transparency of Evil,
Why Hasn't Everything Gone Yet?
Why Hasn't Everything Gone Yet? ,
On Seduction
It is a work that has been compiled and reinterpreted by Kim Toffoletti of his great works such as On Seduction.

With this compilation, Baudrillard examines how individuals and societies are reduced to an illusion through terms such as deception and temptation, between the 'actually' false or non-false identities, roles and images of the post-modern process we are in. It reveals the deep unhappiness of today's people in the context of the causes and consequences of the illusory state of being caused by the consumption-based functioning of the post-modern lifestyle.

Apart from these, it contains tremendous anecdotes about the function of media journalism, one-way consumer propaganda and art understanding revealed through the internet and kits.

In fact, it is necessary to analyze the works written on Baudrillard by considering them sentence by sentence. Because this must be the work required to understand Baudrillard, whose theoretic title is quite dominant. However, again at the word of Baudrillard; "When everything is made visible, we discover that there is nothing left to see." I think it should get Baudrillard read. Now, everything is explained, shown and given in such a way as to "tell a fool" that the recipient's level of thinking and seeing* has dropped to zero. And Baudrillard tells us about this zero point of post-modernism.

[Castiel Moore · Rating 4 out of 5]

I won

[Sinem · Rating 2 out of 5]

Toffoletti bu 5 filozoftan oluşan "Yeni bir bakışla" setinde büyük bir adım atmış, kompleks düşünceleri olabildiğince örnekler kullanarak indirgemeye çalışmış fakat bunu yaparken bir sürü boşluk da bırakmış, bu filozofların 5ini de bilen ama 1ini bile derinden bilmeyen bir eleştirmen gibi. Baudrillard'ı 4 temel izlek İmaj, Sanat, Tüketim ve Ekranlar üzerinden tanıtmaya çalışmış. İmaj ve Ekranlar bölümleri daha açık, kabul edilebilir olmasına rağmen Sanat bölümü özellikle tam anlamıyla vasattı. Örneğin Baurillard'ın sanat anlayışını şöyle açıklamış; O sanatı olumsuzluyordu ve artık hayattan ayrı yüce bir unsur olmadığı her yerde var olan bu yüzden de varolmayan birşeydir diyor ama o fotoğraf sanatına çok düşkündü ve umudumuzu kesmemizi söylemek istemiyordu. Ne alaka memleket. Araya girişleriyle yaptığı yorumlamalar da kötüydü. Verdiği örneklerle de o anki bahsettiği fikri çok iyi bağlayamamış. Ben en azından Baudrillard'la ilgili daha basit bile olsa daha anlamlı bir çerçeve sunmasını, daha önce onu okumayan birinin bile onun hakkında fikir sahibi olabileceği bir eser olmasını dilerdim. İzlekler, genel tasarım ve yaklaşım çerçevesi iyi, içerik kötü. Deleuze'ü de almayı düşünmüştüm iyi ki almamışım dedim

[Dorsa Dehroyeh · Rating 4 out of 5]

توی شروع شناخت بودریار و اندیشه‌اش، کتاب خوبیه.
هرچند من فکر نمی‌کردم دیدگاه بودریار به هنر و مخصوصا هنر معاصر اینقدر بدبینانه باشه.
«ما چگونه می‌توانیم هنر را درک کنیم آن هم وقتی که همه چیز هنر است و وقتی هنر همه همه‌جا هست؟»
و از طرفی دیگه، «گالری زمینه‌ای تعیین کننده برای اثر هنری محسوب نمی‌شود، زیرا رسانه‌ها باعث شده‌اند و هنر دسترس‌پذیرتر و متکثر‌تر شود. پس چه کسی تعیین می‌کند که چه چیزی هنر است؟»
هرچند از بین هنرها میاد عکاسی رو جدا می‌کنه و بهش ارج و غرب بیشتری میده.
«قدرت عکس از حسرت و آرزوی ما برای واقعیتی نشئت می‌گیرد که دیگر هرگز نمی‌توانیم تجربه و لمسش کنیم.»

[Ciara · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very accessible summary of Baudrillard's books & thoughts.

[Myles · Rating 2 out of 5]

(1.5/5.0) Baudrillard is a giant of Post Modernism, whose exploration of mediated realities will probably change your life. Kim Toffoletti bowdlerizes all of that.