Drawing on several of Baudrillard's key writings which are still only available in French, Gane provides us with the essential guide to Baudrillard as cultural critic.

Mike Gane is Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences at Loughborough University.

1 Introduction: the double infidelity 2 From literary criticism to fiction-theory 3 Modern ambience of objects 4 Technology and culture: Baudrillard's critique of McLuhan and Lefebvre 5 The rigours of consumer society 6 From production to reproduction 7 Modernity, simulation, and the hyperreal 8 Fashion, the body, sexuality, and death 9 Anagrammatic resolutions 10 Transpolitical objects 11 From the Beaubourg to the Bonaventure Hotel 12 Conclusion: the other Baudrillard