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The perfect crime / Jean Baudrillard ; translated by Chris Turner.

By: Baudrillard, Jean, 1929-2007.
Contributor(s): Turner, Chris, 1937-.
Series: Radical thinkers ; 28. Publisher: London : Verso Books 2008Description: xii, 156 p. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9781844672035 (pbk.); 1844672034 (pbk.).Uniform titles: Crime parfait. English Subject(s): Reality | Illusion (Philosophy) | Subject (Philosophy) | Object (Philosophy) | Identity (Philosophical concept) | Ontology | PerfectionDDC classification: 110
Contents:
The perfect crime -- The spectre of the will -- The radical illusion -- Trompe-l'oeil genesis -- The automatic writing of the world -- The horizon of disappearance -- The countdown -- The material illusion -- The secret vestiges of perfection -- The height of reality -- The irony of technology -- Machinic snobbery -- Objects in this mirror -- The Babel syndrome -- Radical thought -- The other side of the crime -- The world without women -- The surgical removal of otherness -- The "laying-off" of desire -- The new victim order -- Indifference and hatred -- The revenge of the mirror people.
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Originally published: London : Verso, c1996.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-156).

The perfect crime -- The spectre of the will -- The radical illusion -- Trompe-l'oeil genesis -- The automatic writing of the world -- The horizon of disappearance -- The countdown -- The material illusion -- The secret vestiges of perfection -- The height of reality -- The irony of technology -- Machinic snobbery -- Objects in this mirror -- The Babel syndrome -- Radical thought -- The other side of the crime -- The world without women -- The surgical removal of otherness -- The "laying-off" of desire -- The new victim order -- Indifference and hatred -- The revenge of the mirror people.

Translated from the French.