Jean Baudrillard: From Hyperreality to Disappearance: Uncollected Interviews

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23 collected interviews with the renowned French philosopher and cultural commentator, Jean Baudrillard This new collection gathers 23 highly insightful yet previously difficult-to-find interviews with Baudrillard, ranging over topics as diverse as art, war, technology, globalisation, terrorism and the fate of humanity. From familiar themes to the less well understood aspects of his thought, these interviews give you an overview of Baudrillard's ideas – without the jargon typical of written texts. Read as Baudrillard himself discusses, explains and elaborates on his ideas, making this collection essential for understanding many of his other works. Key Features The first book of collected interviews with Baudrillard for over two decades Valuable to new and seasoned readers of Baudrillard and to students and academics in philosophy, sociology, literary theory, art history, architecture, film and photography, cultural studies, human geography and media studies Gathers many unknown and otherwise unavailable pieces into one volume Jean Baudrillard: From Hyperreality to Disappearance Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: Not Forgetting Baudrillard 1 Too Bad about Patagonia 2 Disappearance beyond Disappearance 3 After Utopia: The Primitive Society of the Future 4 The Possibility of Another Game 5 Politics of Performance: Montand, Coluche = Le Pen? 6 A Time of Promiscuity 7 Forgetting Critiques 8 Cover Story 9 Symbolic Exchange: Taking Theory Seriously 10 Vivisecting the 90s 11 Things Surpass Themselves 12 On the New Technologies 13 I’m Not a Prophet 14 Endangered Species? 15 Hate: A Last Sign of Life 16 Europe, Globalisation and the Destiny of Culture 17 Between Difference and Singularity 18 The Catastrophe of Paradox 19 This is the Fourth World War 20 The Matrix Decoded 21 Continental Drift 22 The Art of Disappearing 23 The Antidote to the Global Lies in the Singular Select Interviews and Dialogues Books by Jean Baudrillard in English Name Index Subject Index