1st Edition

Baudrillard Live Selected Interviews

Edited By Mike Gane Copyright 1993
    232 Pages
    by Routledge

    230 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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

    Biography

    Mike Gane