Jean Baudrillard: Live Theory

Paul Hegarty is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the author and editor of 11 books that span critical and cultural theory, rock, experimental and noise music, as well as audiovisual art including Noise/Music (Bloomsbury, 2007), Rumour and Radiation (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Annihilating Noise (Bloomsbury, 2020). He is also Co-editor of Bloomsbury's Ex:Centrics series.

• 1. Introduction; 2. Simulation and Hyperreality; 3. Geopolitics of the Real; 4. Cultural Objects; 5. Baudrillard on Others: Others on Baudrillard; 6. Baudrillard Live; 7. Conclusion

"In this comprehensive work, Hegary offers a wide array of notes about the main notions of Baudrillard's work. He traces his whole theoretical trajectory by examining the main elements of his opus while pointing to the two key ideas: symbolic exchange and simulation....Inclusion of the interview in the book serves both as a refreshment and a dynamic addition...Here many of the terms discussed in the previous chapters come to 'life'. It is a great way to wrap up the explanatory effort to make Baudrillard more intelligble to his readers. In sum, Jean Baudrillard LT is a significatn contribution not only to the body of work aiming at introducing Baudrillard to new readership, but it also contributes to the work that deals with Baudrillard as someone we are able to work with." -Valerio Bacak, International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, July 2005