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The Perfect Crime
Jean Baudrillard’s The Perfect Crime is a post-modern analysis on the murder of reality. Originally an essay published in 1993 (source), the book expands on the ideas presented there. The style and structure of the book differ from his early work, such as The Consumer Society, and functions primarily as a collection of short essays on the theme of a dead reality. The Perfect Crime draws on past work that Baudrillard has done (such as Simulacra and Simulation and The Gulf War Did Not Take Place), and readers would be advised to not have this be their first exposure to the author. A foundation of the concepts that Baudrillard presents is extremely helpful in understanding The Perfect Crime. Midway through the book, Baudrillard posits that one should leave the world more unintelligible than one found it; for Baudrillard, this means mission accomplished.