Back in the 1980s Jean Baudrillard wrote that public space was collapsing due to a double obscenity: 'The most intimate operation of your life becomes the poten

Jean Baudrillard is one of the most celebrated and most controversial of contemporary social theorists. This major work occupies a central place in the rethinki

Develops a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notions of cultural production with notions of cultural expenditure. This book repr

Controversial postmodern thinker explores the rhetoric of the War on Terror and the Clash of Civilizations between East and West.

''... brilliantly original ... brings cultural and post-colonial theory to bear on a wide range of authors with great skill and sensitivity.' Terry Eagleton