Reviews for Forget Baudrillard?

The average rating for Forget Baudrillard? based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-08-07 00:00:00 Dustin Dutra A decent-enough collection of essays on Baudrillard that offers a variety of disciplinary perspectives, writing styles, and responses to him. I think the most informative are Porter's essay, which provides tons of historical background on mental illness and capitalism which serves to contextualize and correct Baudrillard's thoughts on "general hysteria" in The Consumer Society, Rojek's essay on Baudrillard and politics which offers, besides a capable overview of Baudrillard's anti-politics, some titillating observations about Baudrillard and ethnography and the body, and Turner's second essay, which proposes that America and Cool Memories be read as baroque maxims/memoirs. The limited number of Baudrillard's books at the authors' disposal is a major problem, however: I don't think anyone bothers to cite Symbolic Exchange and Death's original French edition (I don't think the first English translation was published yet while this volume was being written and compiled), which leads to some awful flubs regarding Baudrillard's views on symbolic exchange and history. The early work of The System of Objects and The Consumer Society is nearly as neglected. The extent to which this collection is a product (a simulation?) of the Baudrillard reader edited by Poster is quite astonishing. And there are some essays which offer readings of Baudrillard that, while not superficial or reprehensible at all, just aren't good enough: for just two examples, Smart is clearly unwilling to engage America and The Gulf War Did Not Take Place on its own stylistic and ironical level, and Plant mostly just projects her own fears and juvenile fixation with the "outside" onto Baudrillard.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-12-25 00:00:00 Michael Grommo Just a nice short intro to Žižek's more theoretic work, worth a read if you don't know where to start.