Jean Baudrillard: From Hyperreality to Disappearance : Uncollected Interviews EPUB

23 collected interviews with the renowned French philosopher and cultural commentator, Jean Baudrillard

This new collection gathers 23 highly insightful yet previously difficult-to-find interviews with Baudrillard, ranging over topics as diverse as art, war, technology, globalisation, terrorism and the fate of humanity.

From familiar themes to the less well understood aspects of his thought, these interviews give you an overview of Baudrillard's ideas – without the jargon typical of written texts. Read as Baudrillard himself discusses, explains and elaborates on his ideas, making this collection essential for understanding many of his other works.

Key Features

• The first book of collected interviews with Baudrillard for over two decades
• Valuable to new and seasoned readers of Baudrillard and to students and academics in philosophy, sociology, literary theory, art history, architecture, film and photography, cultural studies, human geography and media studies
• Gathers many unknown and otherwise unavailable pieces into one volume

Find out more

• ‘Nobody Needs French Theory’ – read Interview 21: Continental Drift for free on the Edinburgh University Press blog
• Read the post on Critical-Theory.com: 'Nobody Needs French Theory', Baudrillard Slams Peers in 2005 Interview

List of Interviews

Interview 1: Too Bad about Patagonia

Interview 2: Disappearance beyond Disappearance

Interview 3: After Utopia: The Primitive Society of the Future

Interview 4: The Possibility of Another Game

Interview 5: Politics of Performance: Montand, Coluche = Le Pen?

Interview 6: A Time of Promiscuity

Interview 7: Forgetting Critiques

Interview 8: Cover Story

Interview 9: Symbolic Exchange: Taking Theory Seriously

Interview 10: Vivisecting the 90s

Interview 11: Things Surpass Themselves

Interview 12: On the New Technologies

Interview 13: I’m Not a Prophet

Interview 14: Endangered Species?

Interview 15: Hate: A Last Sign of Life

Interview 16: Europe, Globalisation and the Destiny of Culture

Interview 17: Between Difference and Singularity

Interview 18: The Catastrophe of Paradox

Interview 19: This is the Fourth World War

Interview 20: The Matrix Decoded

Interview 21: Continental Drift

Interview 22: The Art of Disappearing

Interview 23: The Antidote to the Global Lies in the Singular