Publication Date: Jun 2015
Dimensions: 234 x 156 mm
Extent: 224 pages
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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
Find out more
‘Nobody Needs French Theory’ – read Interview 21: Continental Drift for free on the Edinburgh University Press blog
Read the post on Critical-Theory.com: 'Nobody Needs French Theory', Baudrillard Slams Peers in 2005 Interview
List of Interviews
Interview 1: Too Bad about Patagonia
Interview 2: Disappearance beyond Disappearance
Interview 3: After Utopia: The Primitive Society of the Future
Interview 4: The Possibility of Another Game
Interview 5: Politics of Performance: Montand, Coluche = Le Pen?
Interview 6: A Time of Promiscuity
Interview 7: Forgetting Critiques
Interview 8: Cover Story
Interview 9: Symbolic Exchange: Taking Theory Seriously
Interview 10: Vivisecting the 90s
Interview 11: Things Surpass Themselves
Interview 12: On the New Technologies
Interview 13: I’m Not a Prophet
Interview 14: Endangered Species?
Interview 15: Hate: A Last Sign of Life
Interview 16: Europe, Globalisation and the Destiny of Culture
Interview 17: Between Difference and Singularity
Interview 18: The Catastrophe of Paradox
Interview 19: This is the Fourth World War
Interview 20: The Matrix Decoded
Interview 21: Continental Drift
Interview 22: The Art of Disappearing
Interview 23: The Antidote to the Global Lies in the Singular
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