Cool Memories Iv 1995 2000

Baudrillard, Jean

This is the most pleasurable way of absorbing the man's thoughts. It gives his sense of humour, as well as his disgust, free rein, and so is never dull. There's even a good swipe at the Académie Française - no French intellectual worth the name treats that institution reverently. And meanwhile you can absorb his more alarming predictions, and wonder how soon they will come to pass: "One day we shall no longer understand anything about anything, but there won't be anything to understand - the entire universe will have become information. An immaterial involution. Aphanisis. The end of the show."