Description
Book SynopsisThis book
offers a major reappraisal of Jean Baudrillard's thoughts on the image, radical illusion and media culture.
Here for the first time, through a number of highly accessible interviews and recent essays, Baudrillard introduces what he calls the `stunning clarity' of the photographic, and fascinatingly outlines his present thoughts on urban reality, aesthetics, virtual reality and new media technologies, in the light of his practice as a photographer.
The book is illustrated with eight colour plates of Baudrillard's photographs and includes a number of provocative and illuminating responses to his recent writings from noted Baudrillard scholars. It also includes a definitive bibliography of critical responses to Baudrillard's writings on media culture, art and photography.
Table of Contents
Introduction - Nicholas Zurbrugg `Just What Is It That Makes Baudrillard′s Ideas So Different, So Appealing?′ Objects, Images and the Possibilities of Aesthetic Illusion - Jean Baudrillard Aesthetic Illusion and Virtual Reality - Jean Baudrillard The Art of Disappearance - Jean Baudrillard The Ecstasy of Photography - Jean Baudrillard interviewed by Nicholas Zurbrugg Baudrillard′s List - Jean Baudrillard interviewed by Rex Butler Jean Baudrillard′s Defence of the Real - Rex Butler Reading In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities as an Allegory of Representation `Objects in Mirror are Closer Than They Appear′ - Alan Cholodenko The Virtual Reality of Jurassic Park and Jean Baudrillard Between Marx and Derrida - Graham Coulter-Smith Baudrillard, Art and Technology Who Is the `French McLuhan′? - Gary Genosko This Is Not a War - Paul Patton After the Afterimage of Jean Baudrillard - Anne-Marie Willis Photography, the Object, Ecology and Design Baudrillard, Barthes, Burroughs and `Absolute′ Photography - Nicholas Zurbrugg Following Baudrillard - Richard G Smith A Bibliobraphy of Writings on Jean Baudrillard
