Screened out Translated by Chris Turner

World-renowned for his lively and often iconoclastic reading of contemporary culture and thought, Jean Baudrillard here turns his hand to topical political debates and issues. In this stimulating collection of journalistic essays Baudrillard addresses subjects ranging from those he has already established as his trademark (virtual reality, Disneyworld, television) to more unusual topics such as the Western intervention in Bosnia, children's rights, Holocaust revisionism, AIDS, the 1995 French public sector workers' strike, the Rushdie fatwa, mad cow disease and genetic cloning. These are coruscating and intriguing articles, not least because they show that Baudrillard ispace his critics still susceptible and alert to influences from social movements and the world beyond the hyperreal.

Jean Baudrillard is the author of, among other works, America, Fragments: Cool Memories III, The Transparency of Evil, The System of Objects, The Perfect Crime and Impossible Exchange, all from Verso.

"The most notorious intellectual celebrity to have emerged from Paris since Roland Barthes and the most influential prophet of the media since Marshall McLuhan." ? i-D Magazine

"The most important French thinker of the past twenty years." ? J.G. Ballard

"A sharp-shooting lone ranger of the post-Marxist left." ? New York Times