Worldrenowned for his lively and often iconoclastic reading of contemporaryculture and thought Jean Baudrillard here turns his hand to topical politicaldebates ... » 

Worldrenowned for his lively and often iconoclastic reading of contemporaryculture and thought Jean Baudrillard here turns his hand to topical politicaldebates and issues. In this stimulating collection of journalistic essaysBaudrillard addresses subjects ranging from those he has already established ashis trademark virtual reality Disneyworld television to more unusual topicssuch as the Western intervention in Bosnia childrens rights Holocaustrevisionism AIDS the 1995 French public sector workers strike the Rushdiefatwa mad cow disease and genetic cloning. These are coruscating andintriguing articles not least because they show that Baudrillard is pacehis critics still susceptible and alert to influences from social movementsand the world beyond the hyperreal. «