Cool premonitions: Jean Baudrillard's America version 2.0.

Authors :: Clist, Eleanor
Fulton, Samuel
Gilloch, Graeme
Holden, Shelan
Mergea, Tania
Redman, William
Rüegg, Lea
Simpson, Oliver
Wójtowicz, Marta
Zhang, Leksa
Source :: Sociological Review. Jul2022, Vol. 70 Issue 4, p832-855. 24p.
Publication Year :: 2022
Abstract: Jean Baudrillard's highly controversial book America (published in French 1986, English translation 1988) constitutes the point of departure for an undergraduate class writing project which began in 2020. Students were encouraged to respond to the following prompt: what would an America 2.0 look like today in the midst of the Trump presidency? Here we have assembled and arranged the numerous fragments contributed by the students and the editors as a collaborative enterprise in thinking and writing differently. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]