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Jean Baudrillard, M. Nio

Fatal Strategies by Jean Baudrillard, M. Nio takes about 4 hours 3 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 4 hours 3 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1983. 221 pages, about 60,775 words.

9 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 6 hours 45 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 4 hours 3 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 32 minutes

The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Baudrillard cuts across historical and contemporary space with profound observations on American corporations, arms build-up, hostage-taking, transgression, truth, and the fate of theory itself. In this shimmering manifesto against dialectics, Jean Baudrillard constructs a condemnatory ethics of the "false problem." One foot in social science, the other in speculation about the history of ideas, this text epitomizes the assault that Baudrillard has made on the history of Western philosophy. Posing such anti-questions as "Must we put information on a diet?" Baudrillard cuts across historical and contemporary space with profound observations on American corporations, arms build-up, hostage-taking, transgression, truth, and the fate of theory itself. Not only an important map of Baudrillard's continuing examination of evil, this essay is also a profound critique of 1980s American politics at the time when the author was beginning to have his incalculable effect on a generation of this country's artists and theorists. - Courtesy of M.I.T Press

Subjects: Modern Civilization, Social problems, Postmodernism, Modern Philosophy, Philosophy, dialectics

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