Libération Baudrillard

by Henry Bond

Bond isolates and clarifies ten "key" ideas from Baudrillard's later writing which offer a basic orientation for today's globalized and digitized culture.

Beginning when he was fifty-eight (Fall 1987) and continuing until when he was sixty-seven (Spring 1997), Baudrillard wrote a series of occasional articles in the French daily newspaper Libération. These articles were collected into book form as Écran Total (“Total Screen”) published by Editions Galilee (“Les chroniques de Libération”) and then in English as Screened Out, by Verso in 2002.

When considered all-of-a-piece, these articles contain some of Baudrillard’s most cogent, prophetic and thrilling theorizing and analysis of modern life. There are certain definite concepts which suffuse through the articles, and in this essay Bond isolates ten of these--so that it is the ideas rather than the news stories (which prompted the original articles) that become primary.

20 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 14, 2016

About the author

Henry Bond is a writer and photographer; he is senior lecturer in photography at Kingston University; his exploration of Lacanian theory "Lacan at the Scene" was published, with a foreword by Slavoj Žižek, by the MIT Press in 2009.