Jean Baudrillard The Disappearance of Culture - Uncollected Interviews.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baudrillard, Jean, 1929-2007--Interviews.

Baudrillard, Jean.

Baudrillard, Jean, 1929-2007.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

327 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Edinburgh Univ Pr, 2017.

Summary:

Profound and original insights into the fate of culture in 25 conversations with Jean Baudrillard, Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) possessed an uncanny knack for divining the secret trajectory of the world. His clear vision and provocative ideas made sense of a bewildering array of contemporary phenomena. Originally published between 1968 and 2009, the interviews collected here - published to mark the tenth anniversary of his death - cover the key themes of Baudrillard's work and provide revelatory new insights into its purpose and conceptual experimentation. Key Features, 25 eloquent conversations, including six translated by Chris Turner which appear here in English for the first time, Covers numerous contemporary topics and issues: from architecture, art, photojournalism and photography to war, terrorism and evil, Contains a dialogue with Baudrillard that is contemporaneous with the civil unrest in France and the events of May 1968, Includes a new English-language transcription of a Q&A with Baudrillard following a lecture he gave in London in 1994 Book jacket.

Contents:

Interviews

1 Is Transgression a Mode of Political Action? 13

2 Dropping Out of History 36

3 Catastrophic, but Not Serious 46

4 The Apathy of the Masses 66

5 The Transparency of Kitsch 80

6 Baudrillard Shrugs: Terrorism and the Media 93

7 Strange World 113

8 The Ex-termination of the Real 118

9 La Commedia dell' Arte 129

10 From Popular Culture to Mass Culture 137

11 The Ecstasy of Photography 150

12 Baudrillard's List 163

13 Viral and Metaleptic 172

14 The Homeopathic Disappearance of Architecture 182

15 For Illusion 187

16 Impossible and Unexchangeable 194

17 The Art of Disappearance 210

18 Solutions for a Post-technological Society 216

19 Apropos of Utopie 251

20 The Murder of Reality 266

21 Alterity as Fate 272

22 Artificiality and Seduction 285

23 The Roots of Evil 293

24 The Mirror of Photojournalism 303

25 Hoping to Resolve the Irresolvable 307.

ISBN:

9781474417785

1474417787

OCLC:

964503188