Jean Baudrillard

Emmanuelle Fantin and Bran Nicol have produced a brilliant book on the richly creative and compelling analyses of the prolific French thinker Jean Baudrillard. Baudrillard’s work on technology and its impact, consumerism, the media, signs and simulations continues to resonate with the digitalization of our experience of everyday life and Jean Baudrillard deserves to be widely read. * Barry Smart, Professor of Sociology, University of Portsmouth *How could such a celebrated French intellectual have remained so elusive and enigmatic? This paradoxical provocation is addressed through attention to Baudrillard’s literary forms: fragments, aphorisms, theory fictions. Sophisticated and user friendly, it appeals to scholars and beginners as well as the Baudrillardian in all of us. * Diane Rubenstein, Professor Emerita of Government, Cornell University *

Emmanuelle Fantin is Assistant Professor in Communication and Media Studies at Sorbonne Universite. Her books include Le livre dont Jean Baudrillard est le heros (with Camille Zehenne, 2023).

Bran Nicol is Professor of English Literature at the University of Surrey. His books include The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodern Fiction (2009).