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'Dating from 1968 to 2006, from his first to his final interview, this selection covers all the phases of Baudrillard's long career. Clear, coherent and often humorous - the lighting fast responses of a genial philosopher - these interviews catch Baudrillard thinking aloud.' Mike Gane, Loughborough University Profound and original insights into the fate of culture in 25 conversations with Jean Baudrillard Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) possessed an uncanny knack for divining the secret trajectory of the world. His clear vision and provocative ideas made sense of a bewildering array of contemporary phenomena. Originally published between 1968 and 2009, the interviews collected here - published to mark the tenth anniversary of his death - cover the key themes of Baudrillard's work and provide revelatory new insights into its purpose and conceptual experimentation. Key Features - 25 eloquent conversations, including six translated by Chris Turner where appear here English for the first time - Covers numerous contemporary topics and issues: from architecture, art, photojournalism and photography to war, terrorism and evil - Contains a dialogue with Baudrillard that is contemporaneous with the civil unrest in France and the events of May 1968 - Includes a new English-language transcription of a Q&A with Baudrillard following a lecture he gave in London in 1994 Richard G. Smith is Associate Professor in Human Geography. David B. Clarke is Professor of Human Geography. They are both at Swansea University. Cover image: Jean Baudrillard (c) Ulf Andersen/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN [PPC] 978-1-4744-1777-8 ISBN [cover] 978-1-4744-1778-5 Barcode
List of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Baudrillard Unplugged
Interview 1: Is Transgression a Mode of Political Action?
Interview 2: Dropping Out of History
Interview 3: Catastrophic, but Not Serious
Interview 4: The Apathy of the Masses
Interview 5: The Transparency of Kitsch
Interview 6: Baudrillard Shrugs: Terrorism and the Media
Interview 7: Strange World
Interview 8: The Ex-termination of the Real
Interview 9:
La Commedia dell'Arte
Interview 10: From Popular Culture to Mass Culture
Interview 11: The Ecstasy of Photography
Interview 12: Baudrillard's List
Interview 13: Viral and Metaleptic
Interview 14: The Homeopathic Disappearance of Architecture
Interview 15: For Illusion
Interview 16: Impossible and Unexchangeable
Interview 17: The Art of Disappearance
Interview 18: Solutions for a Post-technological Society
Interview 19: Apropos of
Utopie
Interview 20: The Murder of Reality
Interview 21: Alterity as Fate
Interview 22: Artificiality and Seduction
Interview 23: The Roots of Evil
Interview 24: The Mirror of Photojournalism
Interview 25: Hoping to Resolve the Irresolvable
Select Journal Special/Theme Issues/Sections on Jean Baudrillard in English
Select Books on Jean Baudrillard in English
Name Index
Subject Index
About the author
Richard G. Smith is Associate Professor in Human Geography at Swansea University. He is co-editor of Jean Baudrillard: Fatal Theories (Routledge, 2009); The Baudrillard Dictionary (EUP, 2010); Jean Baudrillard: From Hyperreality to Disappearance, Uncollected Interviews (EUP, 2015); and, Jean Baudrillard: The Disappearance of Culture, Uncollected Interviews (EUP, 2017). David B. Clarke is Professor of Human Geography at Swansea University. He is co-editor of Jean Baudrillard: Fatal Theories (Routledge, 2009) and The Consumption Reader (Routledge, 2003). He is the author of The Consumer Society and the Postmodern City (Routledge, 2003).
Summary
Originally published between 1968 and 2009, this collection of 25 pieces includes six interviews translated into English for the first time and a new transcription of a Q&A session with Baudrillard following a lecture he gave in London in 1994, The guiding theme of the collection is Baudrillard's engagement with culture.
