Baudrillard and the Millennium

by Chris Horrocks

Book Overview

Here Horrocks presents Baudrillard's diagnosis of our biggest media event--the Millennium, which is the virus on everyone's mind. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1840460911
• ISBN13: 9781840460919
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Totem Books
• Length: 77 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.4" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

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