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Why hasn't everything already disappeared?

Authors:Jean Baudrillard (Author), Chris Turner (Translator), Alain Willaume (Illustrator)

Summary:Focuses on the question of disappearance. This book weaves a set of variations on the author's theme, ranging from the potential disappearance of humanity as a result of the fulfillment of its goal of world mastery to the vanishing of reality due to the continual transmutation of the real into the virtual.

Print Book, English, 2009

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Publisher: Seagull Books, Calcutta, 2009

Series:

Physical Description:77 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.

ISBN:

9781906497408, 1906497400

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:1037681727

Subjects:

Néant (Philosophie)

Nothing (Philosophy)

ontology (metaphysics)

Notes:

Translated from the French: Pourquoi tout n'a-t-il pas déja disparu? Editions de L'Herne, c2007

Reprint. First published in English by Seagull Books, 2009