Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction: Reading Simulacra: Toward a Bifocal Approach
1. Fatal Strategies
2. Nietzsche's Legacy: The Postmodern Will
3. Seduction, Radical Semiurgy, and the Logic of the Code
4. Technology and the (Dis)appearing Subject: Schizophrenia or Seduction?
5. Dehistoricized Subjectivity: Reese Williams and the Schizoid Text
6. Desire, Seduction, and Subjectivity in Kathy Acker's Novels: Blood
and Guts in High School and Don Quixote
7. Clarence Major's My Amputations: African American Identity
and Simulacra
8. Baudrillard's America: The Perfect Postmodern Object of
Simulation
9. Media Culture on the Verge if Drama: Hyperreal O.J. and Simulacra in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers
Notes
Bibliography
Index