ABSTRACT
Baudrillard is critical on and on. He does not rest his case. His ‘critique of critique’ reveals the problem whereby a critique of the status quo ideology that purports to define a new truth is not only epistemologically flawed, but in political terms is historical. An assumption of the transformative role of critique and social revolution or change (and hence the role of an intelligentsia) no longer animates the landscape that has been called ‘political’. This argument is developed in Chapter 3.
