This website was setup to accompany my programme of research (2015-2021) entitled: Jean Baudrillard: Extreme World, Extreme Theory.

The outputs from the Jean Baudrillard: Extreme World, Extreme Theory research programme are many, for example:

Selected Activities:

Editor of the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies (ISSN:  1705-6411)

Organization of a Major International and Multidisciplinary Conference: 2nd International Multi-Disciplinary Conference on Baudrillard Studies – ‘Applied Baudrillard’ (Oxford, September 5th to 7th, 2018)

Curator of exhibition on ‘Collecting Baudrillard’ at the 2nd International Multi-Disciplinary Conference on Baudrillard Studies – ‘Applied Baudrillard’ (Oxford, September 5th to 7th, 2018). The exhibition will be published as an authored book:

Smith RG (2019) Collecting Baudrillard (Delere Press, Singapore)

Organization of a colloquium on Jean Baudrillard’s ‘Strange World’: Photography and Architecture at Museum of Contemporary Art (MACRO) in Rome (November, 2018)

Selected Publications:

Smith RG and Clarke DB eds. (2015) Jean Baudrillard: from Hyperreality to Disappearance: Uncollected Interviews (Edinburgh University Press)

Smith RG and Clarke DB eds. (2017) Jean Baudrillard: the Disappearance of Culture: Uncollected Interviews (Edinburgh University Press)

Smith RG (2018) ‘Baudrillard’s Photographic Theory’, in Tormey J & Durden M eds. The Routledge Companion to Photography Theory (Routledge, London)

Smith, RG ed. (2019) Jean Baudrillard: The Missing Pieces, Uncollected Writings and Photographs (Edinburgh University Press)

Smith, RG & Turner C eds. (2019 onwards) Jean Baudrillard: Untranslated German Interviews (Seagull Books). 3 volumes.

Smith, RG & Turner C eds. (2019 onwards) Jean Baudrillard: Untranslated French Interviews (Seagull Books). 3 volumes.

Smith RG ed. (2019) Entretiens avec Jean Baudrillard, 1968–2008 (‘Perspectives critiques’ Presses Universitaires de France)

Smith RG (2021) Jean Baudrillard: Extreme Theory (Edinburgh University Press)