Jean Baudrillard: The Disappearance of Culture (academic trade) Uncollected Interviews

by Smith, Richard G.; Clarke, David B.

• ISBN13: 9781474417778
• ISBN10: 1474417779
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2017-06-01
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Summary

Profound and original insights into the fate of culture in 25 collected interviews with Jean BaudrillardJean Baudrillard (1929-2007) was one of the world's most influential, celebrated and controversial thinkers. Originally published between 1968 and 2009, this collection of 25 pieces includes six interviews translated into English for the first time and a new transcription of a Q&A session with Baudrillard following a lecture he gave in London in 1994. The guiding theme of the collection is Baudrillard's engagement with culture. The implications of the implosion of Western culture are dissected and documented in the rich range of material included here.Gathers disparate interviews around culture/image production: a central problematic of Baudrillard's work. Engages with key themes such as artifice, symbolic exchange and seduction. Provides source material for scholarship concerning war, terrorism, architecture and new media.

Author Biography

Richard G. Smith is Associate Professor in Human Geography at Swansea University.

David B. Clarke is Professor of Human Geography at Swansea University. He is co-editor of Jean Baudrillard: Fatal Theories (Routledge, 2009) and The Consumption Reader (Routledge, 2003). He is the author of The Consumer Society and the Postmodern City (Routledge, 2003).