Re: Knowing J.D. -- On Derrida and Lit.

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Camille,

On a sadly serious note, I'm afraid Baudrillard has not been well.  I saw him
several years ago in Canada after he had stopped teaching and his health was
already fluctuating. It has, I'm afraid, gotten worse recently.  I'm not sure
as to his latest status, but I'm afraid that he is no longer writing.  I teach
his book on Simulations and his two books on America (*America* and *Cool
Memories*) sometimes in one of my courses, and I'd ike to teach the book on
Seduction soon.  Although I'm not as up on his work as on Derrida's and
certainly I have more problems with some of his rhetoric (his deliberately
dramatic, carefully constructed carelessness worries me sometimes), I do enjoy
his provocations.

Yours,

--John

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