"One of his last paradoxical meditations before his death in 2007. It has a gently apocalyptic flavour, with a vision of humans making themselves disappear through technological upgrades and artificial intelligence. Contemporary culture is full of ghosts. . . . The book is beautifully produced."--Steven Poole "Guardian "
"The prose makes frequent recourse to art and in particular photography to exemplify the distance between the human and the natural. . . . The text . . . offers, by virtue of its brevity, a good insight into the provocative theorist."--Publishers Weekly
"Baudrillard's readers will understand the appearance of
Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? as an important occasion that will have a powerful impact on contemporary social theory. We should appreciate it not as a farewell essay, but as a practically spiritual text on the appearance, disappearance and reappearance of everyday objects. Consequently, if we seek to read his work accurately, we have to do so in view of its disappearance."
--John Armitage "Times Higher Education "
Jean Baudrillard's (1929-2007) many works include The System of Objects, Simulacra and Simulation, The Gulf War Did Not Take Place, and Utopia Deferred. Chris Turner is a writer and translator who lives in Birmingham, England. Alain Willaume is a freelance photographer, independent curator, editor, and lecturer at the Ecole superieure des arts decoratifs in Strasbourg.