Cool Memories - Softcover

Baudrillard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 086091500X ISBN 13: 9780860915003

Publisher: Verso, 1990

Synopsis

Jean Baudrillard's last book was about America. His new one is about cats, Foucault, Alfa Romeos, leukaemia, Catholicism, the Berlin Wall, mattresses, Laurent Fabius, Jean-Paul II, roses, Antartica, Lech Walesa, mud wrestling, Zinoviev, porn films, snow, feminism, Rio, Jacques Lacan, Stevie Wonder, Palermo, DNA and terrorism. 'Cool Memories is the side of America, the disillusioned side, presented in the form of a diary, though hot in the classical sense. I'm trying to grasp the world when you're no longer tied to it by some kind of ideological enthusiasm, or by traditional passions? Can things "tell" themselves through stories and fragments? These are some of the questions posed in a book which may seem melancholic. But then I think almost every diary is melancholic. Melancholy is in the very state of things.'

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Product Description:

Cool Memories Baudrillard's last book was about America. His new one is about cats, Foucault, Alfa-Romeos, leukemia, Catholicism, the Berlin Wall, mattresses, Laurent Fabius, John Paul II, roses, Antartica, Lech Walesa, mud wrestling, porn films, snow, feminism, Rio, Lacan, Stevie Wonder, DNA and Terrorism. Full description

Review:

"Sharp, sombre, brilliant, explosive, these fragments rarely fail to find their targets: the basic supposition of the superiority and triumphant progress of our technological rationality – and our ′current forms of despair′."

Mike Gane, Loughborough University

About this edition

• Publisher: Verso
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 086091500X
• ISBN 13: 9780860915003
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240