In America, France's leading philosopher of postmodernism took to the freeways to produce a collection of traveler's tales from the land of hyperreality. From the sierras of New Mexico to the streets of New York and LA by night-- a sort of luminous, geometric, incandescent immensityA"--Baudrillard mixes apercus and observations with a wicked sense of fun to provide a unique insight into the country that dominates the world. In this new edition, leading cultural critic and novelist Geoff Dyer offers a thoughtful and perceptive take on the continuing resonance of Baudrillard's book in Obama's America.
In America, France's leading philosopher of postmodernism took to the freeways to produce a collection of traveler's tales from the land of hyperreality. From the sierras of New Mexico to the streets of New York and LA by night-- a sort of luminous, geometric, incandescent immensityA"--Baudrillard mixes apercus and observations with a wicked sense of fun to provide a unique insight into the country that dominates the world. In this new edition, leading cultural critic and novelist Geoff Dyer offers a thoughtful and perceptive take on the continuing resonance of Baudrillard's book in Obama's America.
"A sharp-shooting Lone Ranger of the post-Marxist left." -New York Times
Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) began teaching sociology at the Université de Paris-X in 1966. He retired from academia in 1987 to write books and travel until his death in 2007.
Occasionally provocative and almost always infuriating ... America
is filled with perceptive, almost poetic observations.
*Rolling Stone*
Since de Tocqueville, French thinkers have been fascinated with
America. But when it comes to mysterious paradoxes and lyrical
complexity no French intellectual matches Jean Baudrillard in
contemplating the New World.
*The New York Times*
A mixture of crazy notions and dead-on insights, America is a
valuable (and voluble) picture of what Mr. Baudrillard calls 'the
only remaining primitive society' ... ours.
*The New York Times Book Review*
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