ABSTRACT
This chapter reads one of Baudrillard’s most infamous books – America – and shows how the actual place is important for many key postmodern concepts and issues.The modern and postmodern city space is analysed before moving to the desert and the seismic landscapes of California. Finally, the postmodern experience of the Bonaventure Hotel in LA concludes the chapter, with reference to the important American critic of postmodernism, Fredric Jameson.
