by Richard G. Smith and David B. Clarke
Profound and original insights into the fate of culture in 25 collected interviews with Jean Baudrillard
Originally
published between 1968 and 2009, the collection 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. The implications of the implosion of Western
culture are dissected and documented in the rich range of material
included here.
- Gathers disparate interviews around culture/image production: a central problematic of Baudrillard's work
- Engages with key themes such as artifice, symbolic exchange and seduction
- Provides source material for scholarship concerning war, terrorism, architecture and new media
