Containing two previously unpublished essays by Jean Baudrillard, this book provides a series of dazzling demonstrations of the power of Baudrillard's thought from many of his most accomplished commentators.

Introduction The evil genius of Jean Baudrillard David B. Clarke, Marcus A. Doel, William Merrin and Richard G. Smith 1. The vanishing point of communication Jean Baudrillard 2. On disappearance Jean Baudrillard 3. Commentaries on Jean Baudrillard's Rex Butler, 'On disappearance' David B. Clarke, Marcus A. Doel, Gary Genosko, Douglas Kellner, Mark Poster, Richard G. Smith, Andrew Wernick 4. Baudrillard's taste Rex Butler 5. Floral tributes, binge-drinking and the Ikea riot considered as an up-hill bicycle race William Merrin 6. Better than butter: margarine and simulation Gary Genosko 7. Baudrillard and the art conspiracy Douglas Kellner 8. 'Mirror, mirror:' The Student of Prague in Baudrillard, Kracauer and Kittler Graeme Gilloch 9. The Gulf War revisited Philip Hammond 10. Fate of the animal Paul Hegarty 11. Reality: now and then - Baudrillard and W-Bush's America Diane Rubenstein 12. Baudrillard's sense of humour Mike Gane 13. The (un)sealing of the penultimate Andrew Wernick