by Andrew McLaverty-Robinson Like Baudrillard’s own work, this is an unusual, original and potentially controversial book. Readers expecting the usual kitsch-poststructuralist truisms cloaked in verbosity will be disappointed. So will…

Alexzander Mazey ‘Conspiracies do exist.’ Umberto Eco A Coca-Cola billboard appears, only very briefly, above the American town of Hope, Washington, in the 1982 film, ‘First Blood’. Interestingly enough, this…