Jean Baudrillard is widely recognized as one of the most important and provocative writers of our age. Variously termed ?France?s leading philosopher of postmodernism? and ?a sharp-shooting Lone Ranger of the post-Marxist left,? he might also be called our leading philosopher of seduction or of mass culture. Following his acclaimed America and Cool Memories, this book is the third in a series of personal records in hyperreality. Idiosyncratic, outrageous, and brilliantly original, Baudrillard here casts his net widely and combines autobiographical memories with further reflections on America, the crisis of cultural production, new ideas in fiction/theory, and the ?verbal fornication? of the postmodern. In this wide-ranging discussion of events and ideas, Baudrillard moves between poetry and waterfalls, strikes and stealth bombers, Freud and La Cicciolina, shadows and simulacra, deconstruction...
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