Jean Baudrillard: The Disappearance of Art and Politics

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: Baudrillard in the Mountains....Pages 1-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Transpolitics, Transsexuality, Transaesthetics....Pages 9-26
What do Cyborgs Want? (Paris, Suburb of the Twentieth Century)....Pages 27-37
Hyperreal....Pages 38-42
America’s Century or There’s a Baudrillard Inside Every American, Just Struggling to Get Out....Pages 43-61
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
The Anxiety of Affluence: Baudrillard and Sci-Fi Movies of the Reagan Era....Pages 65-81
Twin Nightmares of the Medical Simulacrum: Jean Baudrillard and David Cronenberg....Pages 82-97
Postmodernity and the Rumor: Late Capitalism and the Festishism of the Commodity/Sign....Pages 98-108
The Invisible Skyline....Pages 109-127
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
Baudrillard’s Seduction of Foucault....Pages 131-145
Fellow Doctors of Pataphysics: Ubu, Faustroll, and Baudrillard....Pages 146-159
The Artificial and the Real: Reflections on Baudrillard’s America....Pages 160-176
Production and Reflexivity in Marx: Baudrillard’s Re-Processed Capital....Pages 177-199
Surprise, Seduction, and Survival: Or Who Was That Woman?....Pages 200-208
Jean Baudrillard’s Radical Enigma: “The Object’s Fulfillment Without Regard For the Subject”....Pages 209-229
Front Matter....Pages 231-231
Revolution and the End of Utopia....Pages 233-242
The Imaginary and Daily Life....Pages 243-251
Disappearance of the Word, Appearance of the World....Pages 252-262
The Construction and Uses of Social Problems....Pages 263-280
Front Matter....Pages 281-281
Baudrillard Shrugs: A Seminar on Terrorism and the Media, with Sylvere Lotringer and Jean Baudrillard....Pages 283-302
Back Matter....Pages 303-308