Description
Jean Baudrillard arouses strong opinions. In this collection of his most important interviews the reader gains a unique and accessible overview of Baudrillard's key ideas. The collection includes many interviews that appear in English for the first time as well as a fascinating interview and encounter between the editor and Baudrillard in Paris.
Table of Contents
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
