Book cover for Cool Memories IV, 1995-2000 by Jean Baudrillard

Cool Memories IV, 1995-2000

Jean Baudrillard
2003 Released
128 Pages
2-3 Hours
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VersoISBN 9781859844625
Translated by Chris Turner
Baudrillard's work of the last two decades has downplayed the position of the critical subject and gone over to the standpoint of the object. Nowhere is this objective (non-)critique which results so clearly played out as in the Cool Memories series.

Here again, in this fourth collection of fragments and sketches, Baudrillard's stance is less that of the interventionist intellectual analysing the world as critical subject than of the barely participant observer, an object among objects, an 'internal exile', watching the world 'world itself' with such fierce insistence, yet registering with acuity our general deficit of reality and meaning.

Jean Baudrillard

Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) began teaching sociology at the Universit� de Paris-X in 1966. He retired from academia in 1987 to write books and travel until his death in 2007. His many works include Simulations and Simulacra, America, The Perfect Crime, The System of Objects, Passwords, The Transparency of Evil, The Spirit of Terrorism, and Fragments, among others.

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