Table of Contents

1. The retrospective echo of the event.

2. The jouissance of language.

3. The unbearable gift.

4. The cloning of God.

5. Illusion/ Real/ Simulation.

6. Gradation/ Degradation/ Hierarchy.

7. Transcendence/ Immanence.

8. The vaccinated system.

9. The suffering of stones.

10. Neanderthal man.

11. It’s the inhuman that thinks us.

12. The genealogy of disappearance.

13. Polychrony.

14. The abolition of night.

15. A luxurious dysfunction.

16. How to eat the nothing?

About the Author

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.

Enrique Valiente Noailles has a degree in Philosophy from the University of Buenos Aires. He published Parallels in Ramo, La metamorfosis argentina, a reflection on society and politics in the 90s, and Les Exilés du dialogue, a dialogue with the French sociologist and philosopher Jean Baudrillard, published in several languages. He has been a university professor and a fellow of the Eisenhower Foundation in the US as well as a member of the Board of Directors of the Argentine Cultural Institute of North America.