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For many, this is clearly a seminal text. Yet, I really wonder what most readers think when plowing through this slim yet dense tome. As other readers have already pointed out, this edition is in desperate need of a re-edit. In fact, it would only do the author justice if the entire text were retranslated. Aside from punctuation errors, there are quite a few misspellings and typos (curcumscribed, ilusory, Phillipino, leucemiaziation, no real [instead of not real]), bizarre constructions ("once shortcircuited the myths"; "the means to so are available"; "otherwise you could never send people out to get smashed up in this kind of trouble"), as well as numerous examples of questionable usage (actuality, in function of). Furthermore, since the translators were American and British, we get both UK and US spelling and punctuation, without any apparent rhyme or reason. What is most unfortunate, however, is that the translators did not bother to research quotes, and thus Sebeok, for example, gets back-translated from French, even though he originally wrote in English. This has to rate as one of the greatest crimes of translation. I find it hard to believe that it ever gets assigned as reading material in universities without anyone noticing what a tremendous wreck it is.


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Simulations Foreign Agents Series Jean Baudrillard Phil Beitchman Paul Foss Paul Patton Books Reviews

overrated
fast n good
great!
One of the smartest/most entertaining books I've ever read.
This would have been a book better left in French. I have been a student of metaphysics for over 25 years and this book is just too unnecessarily difficult. I don't know if it is a bad translation, the author is full of himself or I am upset that it was required reading for a Master's level Communications class on Content Distribution and the professor still has not made a connect to the book and the outcome of the class. There are many other books that explain this concept in simplier terms. The concept is excellent and I agree with much of what he said, but it was just too complicated to get to the bottom line. I gave it two starts because maybe it is more readable in French.
DO NOT BUY THIS VERSION!!! There are countless typos, they layout is corrupt. Seriously, there's not even a copyright page. I don't think it is legal to sell this version of the text??
I'm still struggling with postmodernism. Part of me wanders raptly and avidly in each period of human thought I can get a view of. The classical world, late antiquity, modernity. This is like a troubling viral idea I can't "un-see," a sort of worm that climbs in the ear and whispers subversively about the certitudes of all that other stuff. As such it is irresistible. This is true although this work is still redolent of a lot of the resentful juvenile "radical" overgeneralizing cr*p so prevalent in the 60s. Yet, it is an irritant of a good kind. Like a little poison might shock the system and do one good.
For many, this is clearly a seminal text. Yet, I really wonder what most readers think when plowing through this slim yet dense tome. As other readers have already pointed out, this edition is in desperate need of a re-edit. In fact, it would only do the author justice if the entire text were retranslated. Aside from punctuation errors, there are quite a few misspellings and typos (curcumscribed, ilusory, Phillipino, leucemiaziation, no real [instead of not real]), bizarre constructions ("once shortcircuited the myths"; "the means to so are available"; "otherwise you could never send people out to get smashed up in this kind of trouble"), as well as numerous examples of questionable usage (actuality, in function of). Furthermore, since the translators were American and British, we get both UK and US spelling and punctuation, without any apparent rhyme or reason. What is most unfortunate, however, is that the translators did not bother to research quotes, and thus Sebeok, for example, gets back-translated from French, even though he originally wrote in English. This has to rate as one of the greatest crimes of translation. I find it hard to believe that it ever gets assigned as reading material in universities without anyone noticing what a tremendous wreck it is.