Interviews with Baudrillard

Jean Baudrillard is a world-renowned postmodern theorist. But with interviewers and audiences, he also became a brilliant speaker, passionately and thoughtfully sharing his views on theory, reality, and life. This book, collected for the first time, features 25 interviews covering his entire career, spanning four decades from 1968 to 2008. These interviews cover a wide range of topics, from major works such as The Consumer Society, Fatal Strategies, On Seduction, and Simulacra to his diverse life experiences, including his academic career, travels to the United States, and photographic practice, and even his responses to contemporary issues such as terrorism. This book offers not only a glimpse into the full scope of this scholar's intellectual career, but also a chance to engage in conversation with a sincere and insightful old friend. These interviews, published in newspapers, magazines, and journals worldwide, are perhaps the world's most valuable and vivid collection of Baudrillard's thoughts.
— About this book —
☆It is an interview, but also a life travelogue☆25 sincere and profound interviews, 40 years of critical and pursuing life - About the author Jean Baudrillard -
☆A master of social thought, a pastor of postmodernism, an intellectual terrorist☆A son of the mountains with a peasant soul, a sought-after academic star, a wanderer on a journey☆A profound and calm critic, a sincere and humorous interviewee, a traveler on the long river of life - Editor's Recommendation -
Baudrillard is not only a profound and calm critic, but also a sincere and humorous interviewee, and a passenger on the long river of life.
As a critic, he is well known: he employs concepts like simulacrum, simulation, and seduction to expose the virtuality, indifference, and emptiness that follow the disappearance of reality in the postmodern world. When we lose our unique identity and our sense of agency, he uses this indifference and emptiness as a strategy to allow the emergence of truly operational forms. This is his unique optimism.
As the son of a farmer, he inherited a lazy and rebellious streak. He didn't follow a traditional academic path, rejecting the role and stance of an intellectual within the academy. He began to explore cross-disciplinary fields, dabbling in photography, and, thanks to a spiritual journey, rose to fame across the Pacific, becoming a sensational cultural icon. "At twenty, I was a patriot, at forty a utopian, at fifty, I crossed boundaries, and at sixty, I became viral and tropistic. That's my entire story."
This postmodern master tells you his thoughts and life over the past 40 years in these 25 interviews.

2022-07-01

上海人民出版社

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