Season4: June 17th "Book Lunch" Jean Baudrillard's "America"
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- More on this "Book Lunch" from your host, Mitch Hampton:
"For this book lunch I revisit a contemporary classic - Jean Baudrillard's poetic, impressionistic, polemical book , America , from the early 80s.
It is most interesting to reread the book now as the United States and the world is so very different than then, and yet in many ways, as his text reveals, the same.
I place Baudrillard's book in the tradition of French meditative and speculative writing like Camus, De Beauvoir, de Tocqueville, Montaigne, Montesquieu - far different in meaning and intent from the moralistic and prescriptive non-fiction writing that dominates today."
**Note on Jean Baudrilalrd's America: I will be use the first and original edition of the text, most notable for the photography throughout by the great Chris Richardson.
Hey, I just stumbled upon this video. I’ve read many of Baudrillards books and a so glad you were able to to do America justice. It’s by far my favorite book of his. Absolutely stunning prose
Thank you.
Fantastic content. Many thanks! Intro song is wonderful too(:
I composed that little thing based on the first few notes of Rodgers and Hart's "If I Could Write A Book"..
Very impressive indeed. A lovely start to a video about a book that points out the not so lovely elements of American culture. @@dandiacal
A 100th subscriber here. Thank you Mitch for a great video about a great writer of a great book. As a European currently living in the US, I think this book is arguably the best that has ever been written about America (at least by a non-American).
I do love Baudrillard's book. First, thank for subscribing - 100 has me in in a celebratory mood! There is a lot more I feel I could have said about Baudrillard's text but I did what I could in this medium. Since you like his book as much as you do and you are European it has me thunking about this aspect of his text as well as France as well. .