Volume Six, Number 2 (July 2009)

Bending over a pool of water, Narcissus quenches his thirst. His image is no longer “other”; it is a surface that absorbs and seduces him, which he can approach but never pass beyond. For there is no beyond, just as there is no reflexive distance between him and his image. The mirror of water is not a surface of reflection, but of absorption (Baudrillard, Seduction, 1979:67).

Passings

Harold Pinter: Forgetting What Art Knows

J.G. Ballard: Philosopher of the Future Present

Articles

Jean Baudrillard. “A pill against your house burning down” Fragements in celebration of the 80th anniversary of Baudrillard’s birth (July 27, 1929).

Patrick Burton. A Time Of, and For, Endearment

Alain Gauthier [In French]. La Singularité de Jean Baudrillard

Simon Labrecque. Radical Memory? Baudrillard Viewed From the Walls of Québec City

Sacha Staples. Incarcerated By A Discourse of Binaries: America’s Mediated Culture of Terror

Garen J. Torikian. Against a Perpetuating Fiction: Disentangling Art From Hyperreality

Interview

An Interview With Alan Cholodenko