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 fragments and sketches, Baudrillard's stance is less that of the interventionist intellectual analysing the world as critical subject than of the barely participant observer, an object among objects, an 'internal exile', watching the world 'world itself' with such fierce insistence, yet registering with acuity our general deficit of reality and meaning.

In this fourth collection of fragments and sketches, Baudrillard's stance is that of a barely participant observer, rather than an interventionist intellectual

About the Author
Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) began teaching sociology at the Universite de Paris-X in 1966. He retired from academia in 1987 to write books and travel until his death in 2007.

Reviews
The most important French thinker of the past twenty years. -- J. G. Ballard



Book Information
ISBN 9781859844625
Author Jean Baudrillard
Format Paperback
Page Count 120
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 337g
Dimensions(mm) 196mm * 196mm * 10mm