The Conspiracy of Art: Manifestos, Interviews, Essays - Paperback

by Jean Baudrillard (Author), Sylvere Lotringer (Editor)

Cutting-edge theorist Jean Baudrillard on the complicitous dance of art, politics, economics, and media; includes War Porn, on Abu Ghraib as a new genre of reality TV.

Author Biography

Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) was a philosopher, sociologist, cultural critic, and theorist of postmodernity who challenged all existing theories of contemporary society with humor and precision. An outsider in the French intellectual establishment, he was internationally renowned as a twenty-first century visionary, reporter, and provocateur.

Sylvère Lotringer is Jean Baudrillard Chair at the European Graduate School, Switzerland, and Professor Emeritus of French literature and philosophy at Columbia University.