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