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.

Organized around a series of historical and contemporary works, this catalogue examines the ways photography and films have represented the desert since the 19th century. Among the artists included are Herge, Friedlander, Thesiger, Viola and Pasolini.

This work focuses on the processes and meaning of consumption in contemporary culture. Translated from the French, this reprint includes Jean Baudrillard's concepts of simulation and the simulacrum.

Offers an introduction to the author's polemical approach to culture. This work presents a revisitation of Foucault's History of Sexuality - and of his entire oeuvre - and also an attack on those philosophers, like Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, who believed that desire could be revolutionary.

Aims to serve as a sociopolitical manifesto of the 20th century. Making use of the outburst of ideological terrorism in Europe, this work showcases the end of the Social. It takes to its conclusion the end of ideologies experienced in Europe after the Soviet invasion of Hungary and the death of revolutionary illusions after May 1968.

Jean Baudrillard is one of France's leading modern thinkers and a scholar whose work has necessitated major reassessments across several academic disciplines. This book comprises of his writings on postmodernism.

Features postmodernity's quintessential theorist with his meditations on the meanings of objects.

France's leading philosopher of postmodernism takes to the freeways of the New World. Baudrillard assembles images of light, distance, endless horizontal circulation, political indifference and, above all, simulation.

Part of Radical Thinkers series, this work presents key texts by philosophers and thinkers. It offers a postmodernist philosopher's tour-de-force contemplation on sex, technology, politics and disease in Western culture after the 'orgy' of the 1960s.

The famous postmodernist thinker turns detective to investigate the murder of reality.

In one of the last texts written before his death, Baudrillard meditates on the question of disappearance.

Cutting-edge theorist Jean Baudrillard on the complicitous dance of art, politics, economics, and media; includes War Porn, on Abu Ghraib as a new genre of reality TV. In The Conspiracy of Art, Baudrillard questions the privilege attached to art by its practitioners. Art has lost all desire for illusion: feeding back endlessly into itself, it has turned its own vanishment into an art unto ...

Human cultures are divided into two basic types, two antagonistic forces, one based on symbolic exchange, which is dual and reciprocal, and one based on money and sign exchange, which is totalising. A summation of Baudrillard's work over twenty years, this book is an analysis of the fundamental conflict.

Considers how human cloning heralds an end to sex and death and the divagations of living by instituting a realm of the Same, beyond the struggles of individuation. The author also puts forward the thesis that the arrival of the year 2000 could never take place because we could neither resolve nor leave behind our history.

Baudrillard sees the power of terrorists as lying in the symbolism of slaughter - not merely the reality of death, but a sacrificial death that challenges the whole system. This revised edition is updated with the essays Hypotheses on Terrorism and Violence of the Global .

Not long ago, two friends Jean Baudrillard and Enrique Valiente Noailles the one having come from Buenos Aires, the other from nowhere, met in Paris. They had a long discussion without any precise aim. It was, rather, a way of rubbing up against metaphysics without risk of contagion.

Part of a series of aphoristic journals that covers the period 2000-2004, this book contains notes for keeping the horizon of thought open.

A series of aphoristic journals that covers the period 2000-2004, during which the author re-emerged in the international arena with his controversial essay Spirit of Terrorism , developed his work as a photographer and developed cancer.