Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgements
Introduction
Gary Genosko
Part I. Young Baudrillard
The Novels of Italo Calvino
Review of William Styron's Set This House on Fire
Germany: Is it a New World?
Review of Uwe Johnson's The Border: Toward the
Seventh Spring of the German Democratic Republic
Part II. Critique of Mass-Mediated Life
Review of Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media
Technique as Social Practice
Review of Henri Lefebvre's Taking a Position:
Against the Technocrats
Ephemeral and Durable
Dialectical Utopia
Utopia: The Smile of the Cheshire Cat
Police and Play
Mass (Sociology of)
Part III. The Poetry of Theory
Stucco Angel
Part IV. Political Bankruptcy on the Left and Right
The Divine Left
Dropping Out of History: Interview with Sylvere Lotringer
Our Theatre of Cruelty
Part V. Ironic Aesthetic Disorders
Barbara Kruger
Olivier Mosset: The Object that is None
Enrico Baj, or Monstrosity Laid Bare by Paint Itself
The Transparency of Kitsch: A Conversation with Enrico Baj
Index.