Cool Memories

Jean Baudrillard’s last book was about America. His new one is about cats Foucault Alfa Romeas leukemia Catholicism the Berlin Wall mattresses Laurent Fabius Jean-Paul II roses Antarctica Lech Walesa mud wrestling Zinoviev  porn films snow feminism Rio Jacques Lacan Stevie Wonder Palermo DNA and terrorism.. “Cool Memories is the other side of America the disillusioned side presented in the form of a diary though not in the classical sense. I’m trying to grasp a world in all its silences and its brutality. Can you grasp a world when you’re no longer tied to it by some kind of ideological enthusiasm or by traditional passions? Can things “tell” themselves through stories and fragments? These are some of the questions posed in a book which may seem melancholic. But then I think almost every diary is melancholic. Melancholy is in the very state of things.”