Jean Baudrillard: The Disappearance of Culture: Uncollected Interviews

ISBN-13: 9781474417778 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 336 str.

Richard G. Smith; David B. Clarke

Opis

Originally published between 1968 and 2014, these 25 interviews include material translated into English for the first time and new transcriptions of otherwise unavailable English-language material from now discontinued video and audio sources. The guiding theme of the collection is Baudrillard's engagement with culture. The implications of the implosion of Western culture are dissected and documented in the rich range of material included here.

Spis treści

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.