Television says nothing but: I’m an image, everything’s image. Internet and computers say nothing but: I’m information, everything’s information. Its the sign making itself the sign, the medium doing its own advertising (Jean Baudrillard, Paroxysm, 1998:72).

 

Editorial

Gerry Coulter.  Image, Reversibility, and Challenge.

Passings 

Taking Derrida Seriously. Gerry Coulter
 

Articles

Jean Baudrillard. War Porn. Translated by Paul Taylor

Douglas Kellner. Baudrillard, Globalization and Terrorism: Some Comments on Recent Adventures of the Image and Spectacle on the Occasion of Baudrillard’s 75^th Birthday.

Jean Baudrillard.  From Radical Incertitude, or Thought as Imposter

Rex Butler.  Baudrillard’s Light Writing Or Photographic Thought

Nicholas Ruiz.  A Gift for the Real

Alan Cholodenko. “OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR”: The Virtual Reality of Jurassic Park and Jean Baudrillard

Richard G. Smith. Lights, Camera, Action: Baudrillard and the Performance of Representations

Jason De Boer. The Fatal “Theory-Fiction” of Jean Baudrillard
 

Book Reviews         To submit a review.

William Bogard.  How The Actual Emerges From The Virtual. Review of  Manuel De Landa’s Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy. New York:  Continuum, 2002.

Brett Conway.  Radicalizing Cultural Studies  and Undermining The Mainstream Framework for Defining  Terror. Review of Slavoj Žižek.  Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates. London: Verso, 2002.

Barry Edginton. French Social Theory: Altruism, Anomie, and Hypertelia. Review of Mike Gane’s French Social Theory. London: Sage, 2003.

Stuart Elden. Home and Away. Review of Mike Gane’s French Social Theory and François Cusset’s French Theory: Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze & Cie et les mutations de la vie intellectuelle aux États-Unis. Paris: Éditions la Découverte, 2003.

Pramod K. Nayar. To Exclude Ourselves From the World. Review of Paul Virilio and Sylvere Lotringer Crepuscular Dawn.  New York: Semiotext(e), 2002.

Lenny Steverson. Totems, Tropes, and Manifestos in Sociology and Mass Culture. Review of Patricia Cormack, Sociology and Mass Culture:  Durkheim, Mills, and Baudrillard. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.

Eugene O’Brien.  Dangerous Incertitude, Complexity, and Originality. Review of: Sylvère Lotringer and Sande Cohen. French Theory In America. New York: Routledge, 2001.

Anne-Marie Obajtek-Kirkwood. Crepuscular Wake Up Call. Review of Paul Virilio.  Ground Zero. New York: Verso, 2002; and Paul Virilio, Sylvere Lotringer. Crepuscular Dawn. Los Angeles and New York: Semiotexte(e),  2002.

H. Masud Taj. Empty Space Or A Black Hole? The Proto-Baudrillardian Labyrinth.  Review of Francesco Proto. Mass Identity Architecture: The Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2003.

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