We watch television for hours at a time, but the television set is never itself the object of our attention. We forget the tv is in our room as we engage with images from afar. How do we account for such an everyday piece of furniture This book focuses on the tv set's contradictory presence both as a material object and as a receiver of images.

(Paperback)

Illustrated guide to the controversial sociologist Jean Baudrillard, who died in 2007

(Paperback, Revised edition)

Explores the work of this influential twentieth century philosoher who overturned our assumptions about madness, sexuality and criminality.