Jean Baudrillard,Finn Frandsen
Jean Baudrillardâ€™s last book was about America. His new one is about cats, Foucault, Alfa Romeas,Â leukemia, Catholicism, the Berlin Wall, mattresses, Laurent Fabius, Jean-Paul II, roses, Antarctica,Â Lech Walesa, mud wrestling, Zinoviev, Â porn films, snow, feminism, Rio, Jacques Lacan, Stevie Wonder, Palermo, DNA and terrorism.,â€œ,Cool Memories, is the other side of ,America,, the disillusioned side, presented in the form of a diary, though not in the classical sense.Â Iâ€™m trying to grasp a world in all its silences and its brutality. Can you grasp a world when youâ€™re no longer tied to it by some kind of ideological enthusiasm, or by traditional passions? Can things â€œtellâ€ themselves through stories and fragments? These are some of the questions posed in a book which may seem melancholic. But then I think almost every diary is melancholic. Melancholy is in the very state of things.â€
Philosophy,Nonfiction,Sociology,Philosophy,Theory,Cultural,France
Cool Memories