Jean Baudrillard taught at the University of Paris X from 1966 to 1987. Among his works translated into English are Simulation and Simulacra, Fatal Strategies, Seduction, America, Cool Memories I-IV, The Illusion of the End and The Spirit of Terrorism.

"Sharp, sombre, brilliant, explosive, these fragments rarely fail to find their targets: the basic supposition of the superiority and triumphant progress of our technological rationality - and our 'current forms of despair'." Mike Gane, Loughborough University

• Translator's AcknowledgmentsA Note on the TextCool Memories II 1Translator's Notes 89

Jean Baudrillard taught at the University of Paris X from 1966 to 1987. Among his works translated into English are Simulation and Simulacra, Fatal Strategies, Seduction, America, Cool Memories I-IV, The Illusion of the End and The Spirit of Terrorism.

"Sharp, sombre, brilliant, explosive, these fragments rarely fail to find their targets: the basic supposition of the superiority and triumphant progress of our technological rationality - and our 'current forms of despair'." Mike Gane, Loughborough University

• Translator's AcknowledgmentsA Note on the TextCool Memories II 1Translator's Notes 89

Jean Baudrillard taught at the University of Paris X from 1966 to 1987. Among his works translated into English are Simulation and Simulacra, Fatal Strategies, Seduction, America, Cool Memories I-IV, The Illusion of the End and The Spirit of Terrorism.

"Sharp, sombre, brilliant, explosive, these fragments rarely fail to find their targets: the basic supposition of the superiority and triumphant progress of our technological rationality - and our 'current forms of despair'." Mike Gane, Loughborough University

• Translator's AcknowledgmentsA Note on the TextCool Memories II 1Translator's Notes 89