Impossible Exchange

by Jean Baudrillard

Published 19 October 2001
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 they are all characterized by the same non-equivalence, and hence the same eccentricity. Literally, they have no meaning outside themselves and cannot be exchanged...Read more

The Spirit of Terrorism

by Jean Baudrillard

Published 16 August 2002
Baudrillard sees the power of the terrorists as lying in the symbolism of slaughter—not merely the reality of death, but in a sacrifice that challenges the whole system. Where previously the old revolutionary sought to conduct a struggle between real forces in the context of ideology and politics, the...Read more

Fragments

by Jean Baudrillard

Published 16 October 2003
Jean Baudrillard is one of the most revered philosophers of the past century, and his work has helped define how we think about the post-modern. In this fascinating book of interviews conducted with Francois L'Yvonnet, Baudrillard is on sparkling form and explores his life in terms of his educational,...Read more

Series 4

The renowned postmodernist philosopher’s tour-de-force contemplation of sex, technology, politics and disease in Western culture after the revolutionary ‘orgy’ of the 1960s.

Screened Out

by Jean Baudrillard

Published 22 May 2002
'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 deserved better. Deserved to die, yes,...Read more

Set 5

Passwords

by Jean Baudrillard

Published 18 September 2003
In his analysis of the deep social trends rooted in production, consumption and the symbolic, Jean Baudrillard touched the heart of the concerns of the generation currently rebelling against the framework of the consumer society. With the ever greater mediazation of society, Baudrillard argues that we are witnessing the...Read more

The System of Objects

by Jean Baudrillard

Published 21 October 2005
A cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society, The System of Objects is a tour de force - a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all the live ideas of the day.

Set 3

The Perfect Crime

by Jean Baudrillard

Published 21 August 1996
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...Read more