Research On Baudrillard 's Body Culture Theory

Almost in each book of Baudrillard, there are ‘body” and body culture theories, it could even be concluded that making great understanding on Baudrillard’s body culture theory is the key to understand on the whole theory of Baudrillard’s. He puts “body”into the consumption society, pays more attention to studying on what the body will encounter.This paper calls for origins on two aspects, the social background and the theoretical background of Baudrillard’s body culture theories. In the course of definition,it can be found that the body is a cultural concept, it exists in the structure of meanings,and it can be encoded with decorative means. Therefore, the contemporary history of body is a history of signs and the network covering the body, body segmentation and body tissue into the exchange or symbol structure. Baudrillard’s body culture theories consists of both the physical alienation of the phenomenon of classical analysis, and the re-understanding of the female body culture, which was very rare to study before.Terms to the contribution of Baudrillard’s body culture theories, the cultural geography research methods was highlighted, which makes Baudrillard stationed in the cross of.theory and reality, for a better research on body symbolism and gender differences. In addition, the paper also discusses the limits of Baudrillard’s body culture theories.Above all, this paper manage to find out the source, the content and the female body research of Baudrillard’s body culture, in order to make conclusion of the innovations of Baudrillard’s body culture theories. Throughout the work, we can discover the significance and limits on body culture theory of Baudrillard’s, for the purpose to make more research on the body culture theory.