Baudrillard and Signs Book

	List of figures and tables
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction: Signs must burn!
1	Bar games	1
	The table of conversions	6
	Bar gains: neither Saussure nor Lacan	17
2	Simulation and semiosis	28
	The metaphysics of the referent	34
	The model of simulation as a condensed history of modern semiotic debate on the referent	41
	A Peircean turn	55
	Deleuze and Guattari in the polysemiotic field	57
	A Peircean return	68
3	Varieties of symbolic exchange	72
	Affirmative weaknesses	72
	Juste pour rire	82
	Anagrammatic dispersion	84
	Lyotard and the primitive hippies	88
	The weak and the dead	90
	Hostage anti-value	93
	Pataphysical gestures	104
4	Empty signs and extravagant objects	117
	Salt, sand and simulation	119
	Exotes like us	129
	Wily props and vengeful objects	135
	Conclusion: Signs of Baudrillard	152
	Notes	165
	Bibliography	172
	Name index	189
	Subject index	193