biblio toscana

Descrizione fisica: X, 129 p. : ill. ; 21 cm

Note generali: In this, his most accessible and evocative book, France’s leading philosopher of postmodernism takes to the freeways in a collection of traveler’s tales from the land of hyperreality. Written while Reagan was president, Baudrillard's provocative account of this "obsessional society" remains relevant. From the "steepling gentleness" of New York's skyscrapers to the "limitless horizontality" of Los Angeles, he explores this New World, where the carpets have an "orgasmic elasticity" and the people are "like shadows that have escaped from Plato's cave". The crowded cities are "electrifying" and "cinematic", but in the deserts Baudrillard finds a serene emptiness. For all its strangeness, America is "an amazing place". The book is sometimes Delphic, frequently brilliant, but always original, memorable and even funny.

ISBN: 0860919781

Altri nomi: Turner, Chris

Soggetti: Stati Uniti d'America - Storia
Stati Uniti d'America - Descrizioni e viaggi - 1980-1983

Classificazione: 973.927