Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the evil genius of Jean Baudrillard / David B. Clarke, Marcus A. Doel, William Merrin, and Richard G. Smith
  • The vanishing point of communication / Jean Baudrillard
  • On disappearance / Jean Baudrillard
  • Commentaries on Jean Baudrillard's "On disappearance" / Rex Butler, David B. Clarke, Marcus A. Doel, Gary Genosko, Douglas Kellner, Mark Poster, Richard G. Smith, Andrew Wernick
  • Baudrillard's taste / Rex Butler
  • Floral tributes, binge-drinking and the Ikea riot considered as an up-hill bicycle race / William Merrin
  • Better than butter : margarine and simulation / Gary Genosko
  • Baudrillard and the art conspiracy / Douglas Kellner
  • 'Mirror, mirror' : The student of Prague in Baudrillard, Kracauer and Kittler / Graeme Gilloch
  • The Gulf War revisited / Philip Hammond
  • Fate of the animal / Paul Hegarty
  • Reality, now and then : Baudrillard and W-Bush's America / Diane Rubenstein
  • Baudrillard's sense of humour / Mike Gane
  • The (un)sealing of the penultimate / Andrew Wernick.