Baudrillard Live: Selected Interviews

ISBN-13: 9780415070379 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 230 str.

Mike Gane

Opis

Baudrillard Live collects together many interviews which have been published in very different lopcations and publications into a coherent work, which with new interviews and an introduciton makes available the conversational thought of one of the leading French intellectuals associated with postmodernism. The scope of the interviews is enormous, from the experience of visiting the cinema and on film and photography through to the Gulf War and the new world order. Baudrillard is well known for his critique of modernity. This work is an essential complement to this body of writing and and reveals Baudrillard thinking on his feet. It provides a supplement to his often difficult writing and it illuminates many points of contention in his work, particularly those relating to postmodernism. But the book is far more than a supplement. It is critique of modern society, and it raises many disturbing issues and problems. The collection is edited by a leading authority on Baudrillard's work. It should appeal not only to those interested in French intellectual life but also to those interested in the debate on modernity.

Spis treści

Introduction, Part One: Interview 1: I Don't Belong to the Club, Part Two: Interview 2: I Like the Cinema, Interview 3: Baudrillard's Seductions, Interview 4: The `Look' Generation, Interview 5: The Power of Reversibility that Exists in the Fatal, Interview 6: The Revenge of the Crystal, Interview 7: Isn't an Image Fundamentally Immoral? Interview 8: Intellectuals, Commitment and Political Power, Interview 9: Gane with Vestiges, Part Three: Interview 10: Forget Baudrillard, Part Four: Interview 11: America as Fiction, Interview 12: The Evil Demon of Images, Interview 13: The Work of Art in the Electronic Age, Interview 14: The Politics of Seduction, Interview 15: The End of the End, Interview 16: Fractal Theory, Interview 17: Writing has always Given me Pleasure, Interview 18: This Beer Isn't a Beer, Interview 19: Sublunar and Atonal Landscape, Part Five: Interview 20: Baudrillard; The Interview, Afterword: Amor Fati, Suggested Reading

O autorze

Mike Gane