by Dr. Robert M. Maniquis Robert M. Maniquis 1: I wanted to begin with something very important in our cultural life – the incidental news story. Though this business of…

by Monica Sassatelli  Monica Sassatelli: Do you think it is possible to talk, as people increasingly do, of a European identity? Jean Baudrillard: I think that originally Europe was an…

by Dr. Maximiliano E. Korstanje Introduction For some reason, which is very hard to precise here, Jean Baudrillard was an author who is not widely cited in tourism studies. This…

by Alexzander Mazey ‘We lived once in a world where the realm of the imaginary was governed by the mirror, by dividing one into two, by theatre, by otherness and…

by Dr. Roger Célestin  Roger Célestin: Let’s begin by trying to come up with a definition. How would you define popular culture in France today and what are its most…

by John Farnsworth Abstract This paper takes up a psychoanalytic critique of Baudrillard’s critical theory to discuss how his formulation of the real, the object and the hyperreal can be…

by Deborah Solomon Deborah Solomon: As one of France’s most celebrated philosophers, can you give us any insight into the civil discontent that is pitting a generation of young people…

by Dr. Arthur Kroker and Dr. Oleg Maltsev Oleg Maltsev: You have known Jean Baudrillard for 15 years. How would you describe Baudrillard as a person and scholar? Arthur Kroker:…