Table of Contents

Introduction
PART ONE: YOUNG BAUDRILLARD
The Novels of Italo Calvino
Review of William Styron, Set This House on Fire
Germany
Is It a New World?
Review of Uwe Johnson, The Border
PART TWO: CRITIQUE OF MASS-MEDIATED LIFE
Review of Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media
Technique as Social Practice
Review of Henri Lefebvre, 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 THREE: THE POETRY OF THEORY
Stucco Angel
PART FOUR: POLITICAL BANKRUPTCY ON THE LEFT AND RIGHT
The Divine Left
Dropping Out of History
Our Theatre of Cruelty
PART FIVE: IRONIC AESTHETIC DISORDERS
Barbara Kruger
Olivier Mosset
The Object That Is None
Enrico Baj or Monstrosity Laid Bare by the Paint Itself
The Transparency of Kitsch