The Jean Baudrillard Reader
About this book
Jean Baudrillard was perhaps the most controversial of all social and cultural theorists. He has been variously vilified as a 'postmodernist', an 'overrated French theorist' and one of the 'intellectual imposters'. In his seventies he survived global fame and a name check in The Matrix; he also contracted cancer. His comments on 9/11, Abu Ghraib and Europe's suburban riots have been eagerly sought and digested. However, his translated publications since his first book in 1968 have left a trail of confusion and misinterpretation. Jean Baudrillard is a notorious figure but few have read many examples of his entire oeuvre. There is now though a chance to read Baudrillard's texts in an overall historical, social and political context and for a cool re-assessment to be made of his life and work, after his death. This book is a central part of that project. It concentrates on what Baudrillard has written over five decades and the order in which he wrote it. The Reader comprises extracts of Baudrillard's writings from the sixties to the noughties, with an editorial introduction and a concluding reading guide.Key Features*Arranged chronologically in order of first publication in French, the Reader illustrates the development and interconnectedness of Baudrillard's work since the 1960s.*Each section has an extract of one of Jean Baudrillard's writings translated into English, prefaced by a short bibliographical introduction setting the scene. *The Reader will be of interest to students and staff in a range of university courses across the globe and to those general readers interested in public intellectuals, media events and contemporary theory.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1. On Non-Postmodernity by Steve Redhead
- 2. Mass Media Culture
- 3. The Linguistic Imaginary
- 4. The Ecliptic of Sex
- 5. The Beaubourg Effect: Implosion and Deterrence
- 6. Please Follow Me
- 7. The Evil Demon of Images
- 8. The Gulf War: Is It Really Taking Place?
- 9. Pataphysics of the Year 2000
- 10. Impossible Exchange
- 11. The Millennium, or the Suspense of the Year 2000
- 12. Truth or Radicality? TheFuture of Architecture
- 13. The Art Conspiracy
- 14. Requiem for the Twin Towers
- 15. Pornography of War
- 16. Contemporary Art: Art Contemporary with Itself
- 17. The Pyres of Autumn
- 18. We Have Never Been Postmodern: Reading Jean Baudrillard by Steve Redhead
- Index