Jean Baudrillard [electronic resource] : fatal theories / edited by David B. Clarke ... [et al.].

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the evil genius of Jean Baudrillard / David B. Clarke, Marcus A. Doel, William Merrin, and Richard G. Smith -- The vanishing point of communication / Jean Baudrillard -- On disappearance / Jean Baudrillard -- Commentaries on Jean Baudrillard's'On disappearance' / Rex Butler, David B. Clarke, Marcus A. Doel, Gary Genosko, Douglas Kellner, Mark Poster, Richard G. Smith, Andrew Wernick -- Baudrillard's taste / Rex Butler -- Floral tributes, binge-drinking and the Ikea riot considered as an up-hill bicycle race / William Merrin -- Better than butter : margarine and simulation / Gary Genosko -- Baudrillard and the art conspiracy / Douglas Kellner --'Mirror, mirror' : The student of Prague in Baudrillard, Kracauer and Kittler / Graeme Gilloch -- The Gulf War revisited / Philip Hammond -- Fate of the animal / Paul Hegarty -- Reality, now and then : Baudrillard and W-Bush's America / Diane Rubenstein -- Baudrillard's sense of humour / Mike Gane -- The (un)sealing of the penultimate / Andrew Wernick.