In the Delirium of the Simulation:

Baudrillard Revisited (2024)



by Achim Szepanski

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Authored by Achim Szepanski
Afterword by Alessandro Sbordoni
Translation & Editing by Achim Szepanski and Palais Sinclaire
Art & Design by Palais Sinclaire
Layout & Typography by Polymnia Tsinti 

Metadata:


Cat#: BECOMING004C
Dimensions
: 13x19cm
Binding: Perfect Bound 
Pages: 278pp.
ISBN
: 978-9925-8156-5-4  (Print)
Language: English
Edition: Third
Released
: April 2025

To be cited as:Szepanski, A. (2025) In the Delirium of the Simulation: Baudrillard Revisited. Berlin/Nicosia: Becoming/NON. 978-9925-8156-5-4.

About:


This is a monumental and extensive work from someone who is arguably the most well-versed scholar of Baudrillard, Deleuze & Laruelle in the German-speaking world, Achim Szepanski, the original founder of Mille Plateaux, Force Inc Music Works and NON. This book is dedicated to Jean Baudrillard, who would be described by Achim as the most radical and advanced stimmung in Philosophy. Through this comprehensive and devouring analysis of Baudrillard’s work, the author presents a gripping account of their own philosophy; alongside his magnum opus die Ekstasie der Spekulation,  this book, In the Delirium of the Simulation, provides the strongest case for what might be called, in light of his passing, Szepanskism or Szepanskian Economics.

From Finance, to non-philosophy and radical experimental music, Szepanski is an anomalous and unique theoretician with one hell of a history.

Contents:


Metabox of Terms: Simulation, Code, Hyperreality, Fractal, Seduction and Implosion 
Baudrillard's Maximisation Hypothesis: the System and the Other
Baudrillard & Marxism: Signs, Production and Money
Distinguishing the Consumer System (or Shopping Mall) from the Landfill
Baudrillard & the Financial Simulacrum
Excursus on Jonathan Beller's World Computer 
Hyperreality & Artificial Intelligence
Baudrillard & Quantum Theory
Afterword: Hyperculture by Alessandro Sbordoni
Appendix 1: Taylor Swift Does Not Exist
Appendix 2: Baudrillard: After the Orgy
Appendix 3: Imagination & Reality: Psychoanalysis vs Baudrillard

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