Scott Lash, Lancaster University
"This book is--what might sound like a contradiction in terms--an ideal teaching book on Baudrillard."
Book Description
Baudrillard Live is a compilation of interviews with Jean Baudrillard, the ``father of postmodernism,'' and one of the foremost French intellectuals of the twentieth century. Complete with new interviews as well an introduction from a leading authority on Baudrillard's work, this book offers the reader an unprecedented sampling of Baudrillard's compelling and far more accessible conversational thought. The interviews cover a wide range of topics, from his meditations on experience of going to the cinema, to his views on film, photography, the Gulf War and the New World Order. This collection provides an invaluable supplement to Baudrillard's often difficult writing, and even clarifies several points of contention in his work, particularly those issues relating to postmodernism.
