Category: Postmodern theory
Interview with Jean Baudrillard: from popular culture to mass culture
by Dr. Roger Célestin Roger Célestin: Let’s begin by trying to come up with a definition. How would you define popular culture in France today and what are its most…
Questions for Jean Baudrillard: Continental Drift
by Deborah Solomon Deborah Solomon: As one of France’s most celebrated philosophers, can you give us any insight into the civil discontent that is pitting a generation of young people…
America and China as Hyperreal: Jean Baudrillard and Bo Yang
The starting points of the present reflection are Jean Baudrillard’s America and Bo Yang’s The Ugly Chinaman. Yang uses his leading concept, the Chinese soy paste vat, as a metaphor…
“Things Surpass Themselves”
FR Recently you were criticised as the prototype of an ‘administrator of theoretical emptiness’ who has taken up a depoliticised position. Not long ago you yourself wrote that today every…
A final, paradoxical wink …
… comes to us, perhaps came to us, is quite possibly always coming to us, from our dear friend, our teacher, to remind us, to quite possibly never let us…
Fatal Fascination, or, Counterinsurgency as Suicide
Andrew McLaverty-Robinson Andrew McLaverty-Robinson is a freelance researcher and political dissident based in the UK. His major works include a three-volume introduction and critique of Homi Bhabha, now available from…
Kairos and contingency in photography: Jean Baudrillard’s photographs
by Peter Weibel The extraordinary impact of Baudrillard’s theoretical work on the development of art in the entire world is well known. Little known is the fact that Baudrillard himself…
Sociology of Art, Baudrillard and Marcuse
Douglas Kellner Oakland, PSA, April 2007[i] When asked to contribute to this forum on art and sociology I was working on a paper on Baudrillard and his book The Conspiracy…
