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The article focuses on the series of notebooks called "Cool Memories," written by Jean Baudrillard in France. He attempted to write in an aphoristic, fragmented mode to grasp the world without finding a central point, a point of interpretation. The author claims that the notebooks examines the kind of writing which was envisaged as providing a mode of access to radical modernity beyond any possibility of interpretation. It suggests that the series can be considered as Baudrillard's way of living in the world as a tension between radical empiricism and mastery in the symbolic order. Moreover, it presents the reader with an impossible dilemma between critique or jouissance

Explores the social implications of the magazine Les Inrockuptibles in France. Details on the origin of the magazine's name; Influence of the magazine on politics; Relationship between biological ageing and social ageing; Account on the aesthetic criteria and identity of the magazine; Analysis on the planning and financial manoeuvering of the publication.

Focuses on the interaction of the fields of literary studies and the human sciences in France since the turn of the 20th century. Historical perspective on the future of French cultural studies; Repercussions of the emergence of French human sciences on the interactions between ethnography and literature.