Steve Redhead

(Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2004 Columbia University Press, New York, 2004)

The book collects for the first time readable extracts of Virilio’s work from the entire range of his career. It is prefaced by an editorial introduction showing that Virilio has produced important – if controversial – ‘theory at the speed of light’ that can uncannily illustrate the impact of new information and communications technologies in a world which collapses time and distance as never before. Each extract is prefaced by a bibliographical and context commentary and the book is completed by an innovative guide to reading Virilio.

The book is published in North America by Columbia University Press, New York, in their ‘European Perspectives’ series alongside books by Theodor Adorno, Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althusser, Julia Kristeva and many others.

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(Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2004 and University of Toronto Press, Toronto and Buffalo, 2004)

This is the first authoritative study of the life and work of French urban and cultural theorist Paul Virilio. It sets out to explain and analyse what Virilio has actually said over the years and when he said it, correcting many mistaken interpretations along the way.

The book is accessibly written for a wide-ranging audience.

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(Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2008
Columbia University Press, New York, 2008)

This book on the renowned French social and cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard is the first published after his sad death from cancer in March 2007. By presenting myriad extracts from texts written by Baudrillard since the 1960s until the mid 2000s, the book sets out to explain and analyse what Baudrillard has actually said over the years and exactly when he said it, correcting many mistaken interpretations along the way.

The book has an innovative editorial introduction to Baudrillard, a further reading guide and all extracts have micro introductions setting the scene of the piece. It is accessibly written for a wide-ranging global audience, either experts on Baudrillard or coming to his work for the first time. The book is published in North America by Columbia University Press, New York, in their prestigious European Perspectives series alongside books by Louis Althusser, Julia Kristeva, Paul Virilio and many others.

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