Texts by Jean Baudrillard, 1993

Eddie Yeghiayan

• A sombra das maiorias silenciosas: o fim do social e o surgimento das massas. Sao Paulo: Brasiliense, 1993.
        Portuguese translation by Suely Bastos of À l'Ombre des majorites silencieuses (1978).
        3^rd edition.

• "Die ästhetische Illusion = The Aesthetic Illusion." Parkett (1993), 37: 10-15.

• Amerika. Belgrade: Buddy Books & Kontekst, 1993.
        Serbian translation by Mila Bastic of Amérique (1986).

• Baudrillard Live: Selected Interviews. Edited by Mike Gane. London & New York: Routledge, 1993.
  Contents:
  "Introduction" Mike Gane
  Part. I. A Virtual State of Rupture . . .
  Interview 1. I Don't Belong to the Club, to the Seraglio:19-25
  Part. II. Beyond Alienation . . .
  Interview 2. I Like the Cinema:29-35
  Interview 3. Baudrillard's Seductions:36-40
  Interview 4. The 'Look' Generation--The Mannerism of a World Without Manners:41-42
  Interview 5. The Power of Reversibility that Exists in the Fatal:43-49
  Interview 6. The Revenge of the Crystal:50-66
  Interview 7. Is an Image Not Fundamentally Immoral?67-71
  Interview 8. Intellectuals, Commitment and Political Power:72-80
  Interview 9. Game with Vestiges:81-95
  Part III. I Stopped Living . . .
  Interview 10. Forget Baudrillard:99-127
  Part IV. Radicalism has Passed into Events . . .
  Interview 11. America as Fiction:131-135
  Interview 12. The Evil Demon of Images:136-144
  Interview 13. The Work of Art in the Electronic Age:145-151
  Interview 14. The Politics of Seduction:152-155
  Interview 15. The End of the End:156-164
  Interview 16. Fractal Theory:165-171
  Interview 17. Writing Has Always Given Me Pleasure:172-179
  Interview 18. This Beer Isn't a Beer:180-190
  Interview 19. Sublunar and Atonal Landscape:191-196
  Part V. When Reality Merges with the Idea . . .
  Interview 20. Baudrillard: The Interview:199-207
  Afterword / Amor Fati(A Letter from Baudrillard):208-209

• "Colleccionistas y coleccionismos." Revista de Occidente (February 1993), 141:115-119.
        Excerpt from El sistema de los objetos (1969) translated by Francisco González Aramburo.

• "Consumer Society." In James D. Faubion, ed., Rethinking the Subject: An Anthology of Contemporary European Social Thought, pp. 193-203. Foreword by Paul Rabinow. Boulder: Westview Press, 1995.
        Adapted from "Consumer Society" in Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings, edited by Mark Poster (1988), pp. 31-44.

• Cool memories, I et II, 1980-1990. Le Livre de Poche. Biblio essais. Paris: Librarie Générale Française, 1993.
        See Cool Memories (1987) (1990).

• Cultura y simulacro. Ensayo, 4. Barcelona: Kairós, 1993.
  Includes:
  La precesion de los simulacros.
  El efecto Beaubourg.
  A la sombra de las mayorias silenciosas.
  El fin de lo social.
  Translation by Antoni Vicens and Pedro Rovira.
        4^th edition.
        See Cultura y simulacro (1984) (1987).

• "Ensembles artificiels. La Biospère 2 ou De la conjuration du Mal à la gestion des déchets." In Un Autre partage: homme, ville, nature, pp. 91-100. Toulouse: Érès, 1993.
        Actes de la rencontre internationale organisée par le Centre de recherches (Fundaçao Casa de Rui Barbosa), l'Organisation pour le developpement de la science et de la culture (Colégio do Brasil) et la Société internationale pour le développement (SID) à la Fundaçao Casa de Rui Barbaso, à Rio de Janeiro les 25, 26 et 27 mai 1992 sous le haut patronage de l'UNESCO.

• "The Evil Demon of Images and the Precession of Simulacra." In Thomas Docherty, ed., Postmodernism: A Reader, pp. 194-199. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.

• "Hyperreal America." Economy and Society (May 1993), 22(2):243-252.
        Translated by David Macey.
        Text of a lecture given at the University of Essex in November 1992.

• La ilusión del fin o La huelga de los acontecimientos. Argumentos, 142. Barcelona: Anagrama, 1993.
        Spanish translation by Thomas Kauf of L'Illusion de la fin (1992).

• L'illusione de la fine, o, Lo sciopero degli eventi. Lo Spirito del tempo, 9. Milan: Anabasi, 1993.
        Italian translation by Alessandro Serra of L'Illusion de la fin (1992).

• "Natural Wood, Cultural Wood." In Penny Sparke, ed., The Plastics Age: From Bakelite to Beanbags and Beyond. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1993.

• "Pas de pitié pour Sarajevo." Libération (January 7, 1993): 6.

• "The Precession of Simulacra." In Joseph Natoli and Linda Hutcheon, eds., A Postmodern Reader, pp. 342-375. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993.
        See Simulations (1983), pp. 1-75.

• "The Timisoara Syndrome: The Télécratie and the Revolution." Columbia Documents of Architecture and Theory: D (1993), 2:61-71.
        A transcription of Baudrillard's lecture at Columbia University on April 6, 1992.

• "Der reine Terrorismus. Ein gespräch mit Eckhard Hammel." Der reine Terror: Gewalt von rechts, pp. 47-58. Passagen Heft, 9. Vienna: Passagen, 1993.
        Interview conducted by Eckhard Hammel.

• Symbolic Exchange and Death. Introduction by Mike Gane. Theory, Culture & Society. London: Sage, 1993.
  Contents:
  1 The End of Production:6-49
  The Structural Revolution of Value:6-9
  The End of Production:9-30
  Political Economy as a Model of Simulation:31-38
  Labour and Death:38-49
  2 The Order of Simulacra:50-86
  The Three Orders of Simulacra:50
  The Stucco Angel:50-53
  The Automation and the Robot:53-55
  The Industrial Simulacrum:55-57
  The Metaphysics of the Code:57-61
  The Tactile and the Digital:61-70
  The Hyperrealism of Simulation:70-76
  Kool Killer, or The Insurrection of Signs:76-86
  3 Fashion, or The Enchanting Spectacle of the Code:87-100
  The Frivolity of the Déja Vu:87-89
  The 'Structure' of Fashion:89-92
  The Flotation of Signs:92
  The 'Pulsion' of Fashion:93-95
  Sex Refashioned:95-98
  The Insubvertible:98-100
  4 The Body, or The Mass Grave of Signs:101-124
  The Marked Body:101-104
  Secondary Nudity:104-107
  Strip-tease:107-110
  Planned Narcissism:111-112
  Incestuous Manipulation:112-114
  Models of the Body:114
  Phallus Exchange Standard:114-116
  Demagogy of the Body:116-118
  Apologue:118-119
  Zhuang-Zi's Butcher:119-124
  5 Political Economy and Death:125-194
  The Extradition of the Dead:125-131
  The Exchange of Death in the Primitive Order:131-144
  Political Economy and Death:144-148
  The Death Drive:148-154
  Death in Bataille:154-158
  My Death is Everywhere, my Death Dreams:158-194
  6 The Extermination of the Name of God:195-242
  The Anagram:195-213
  The Linguistic Imaginary:213-222
  The Witz, or The Phantasm of the Economic in Freud:222-242.
        Translation by Iain Hamilton Grant of L'Échange symbolique et la mort (1976).

• Le Système des Objets. Tel, 33. Paris: Gallimard, 1993.
        See Le Système des Objets (1968).

• "Toward a Principle of Evil." In Thomas Docherty, ed., Postmodernism: A Reader, pp. 355-361. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.

• The Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme Phenomena. London & New York: Verso, 1993.
  Contents:
  Part I
  After the Orgy:3-13
  Transaesthetics:14-19
  Transsexuality:20-25:
  Transeconomics:26-35
  Superconductive Events:36-43
  Operational Whitewash:44-50
  Xerox and Infinity:51-59
  Prophylaxis and Virulence:60-70
  Drives and Repulsions:71-74
  The Mirror of Terrorism:75-80
  Whatever Happened to Evil?81-88
  Necrospective:89-99
  The Fate of Energy:100-105
  The Theorem of the Accursed Share:106-110
  Part II: Radical Otherness
  The Hell of the Same:113-123
  The Melodrama of Difference:124-136
  Irreconcilability:139-145:
  Radical Exoticism:146-155
  Pursuit in Venice:156-160
  Viral Hospitality:161-163
  The Declination of Wills:164-171
  The Object as Strange Attractor:172-174
        Translation by James Benedict of La Transparence du mal: Essai sur le phénomènes extrêmes (1990).