Jean 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 Baudr[...]

The Utopie group was born in 1966 at Henri Lefebvre's house in the Pyrenees. The eponymous journal edited by Hubert Tonka brought together sociologists Jean Baudrillard, Ren Lourau, and Catherine Cot, architects Jean Aubert, Jean-Paul Jungmann, Antoine Stinco, and landscape architect Isabelle Aurico[...]

In 1976, Jean Baudrillard sent this essay to the French magazine Critique, where Michel Foucault was an editor. Foucault was asked to reply, but remained silent. Forget Foucault (1977) made Baudrillard instantly infamous in France. It was a devastating revisitation of Foucault's recent History of Se[...]

"The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost its meaning."--from The Ecstasy of Communication First published in France in 1987, The Ecstasy of Communication was Baudrillard's [...]

History that repeats itself turns to farce. But a farce that repeats itself ends up making a history.--from The Agony of PowerIn these previously unpublished manuscripts written just before his death in 2007, Jean Baudrillard takes a last crack at the bewildering situation currently facing us as we [...]

Singular Modernity, Jameson Ethics, Badiou The Spirit of Terrorism, Baudrillard Infinitely Demanding, Critchley The Fiery Brook, Feuerbach Rationality and Irrationality in Economics, Godelier Capitalism, Socialism, Ecology, Gorz Critique of Instrumental Reason, Horkheimer Marxism and Philoso[...]

In his new book, perhaps the most cogent expression of his mature thought, Jean Baudrillard turns detective in order to investigate a crime which he hopes may yet be solved: the murder of reality. To solve the crime would be to unravel the social and technological processes by which reality has quit[...]

This third book in the "Cool Memories" series is culled from Baudrillard's notebooks in the period when he was composing "The Illusion of the End" and "The Perfect Crime." In it, he resumes his investigation of the meta-metaphysics of objects. Like its predecessors, the book is a work of brief medit[...]

Jean Baudrillard's now familiar investigations into reality and hyper-reality shift here into a more metaphysical frame. Working his way through the various spheres and systems of everyday life--the political, the juridical, the economical, the aesthetic, the biological, among others--he finds that [...]

'Watching the president's Christmas message produces this necropolar, white mass sensation. Seeing the video broadcast of the Christmas service in the cathedral itself, with these pathetic screens and the young worshippers slumped around them here and there, you tell yourself that God and religion d[...]

Jean Baudrillard's work of the last two decades has downplayed the position of the critical subject and gone over to the standpoint of the object. Nowhere is this objective (non-)critique which results so clearly played out as in the Cool Memories series. Here again, in this fourth collection of fra[...]

The art of living today has shifted to a continuous state of the experimental. In one of his last texts, "Telemorphosis," renowned thinker and anti-philosopher Jean Baudrillard takes on the task of thinking and reflecting on the coming digital media architectures of the social. While "the social" ma[...]