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Cool Memories 1980-1985

By Jean Baudrillard

Book information

Year
1990
ISBN
9780860912835, 0860912833, 086091500X, 9780860915003
LCC
PQ2662.A853483 C6613 1990
Open Library ID
OL1858981M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10657128 bytes)
Pages
234\236
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Cool Memories is the other side of America, the disillusioned side, presented in the form of a diary, though not in the classical sense.His new book is about cats, Foucault, Alfa-Romeos, leukaemia, Catholicism, the Berlin Wall, mattresses, Laurent Fabius, John-Paul II, roses, Antarctica, Lech Walesa, mud wrestling, Zinoviev,  porn films, snow, feminism, Rio, Jacques Lacan, Stevie Wonder, Palermo, DNA and terrorism.I'm trying to grasp a world in all its silences and its brutality. Can you grasp a world when you're no longer tied to it by some kind of ideological enthusiasm, or by traditional passions? Can things "tell" themselves through stories and fragments? THese are some of the questions posed in a book which may seem melancholic. But then I think almost every diary is melancholic. Melancholy is in the very state of things.

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