Introduction to the Series. One or Two Final Thoughts (A Retrospective Preface) Essays 1 Marinetti, Boccioni and Electroacoustic Poetry: Futurism and After 2 The Limits of Intertextuality: Barthes, Burroughs, Gysin, Culler 3 Postmodernity, Metaphore Manquee and the Myth of the Trans-avant-garde 4 Baudrillard’s Amerique and the “Abyss of Modernity” 5 Jameson’s Complaint: Video Art and the Intertextual “Time-Wall” 6 Postmodernism and the Multimedia Sensibility: Heiner Muller’s Hamletmachine and the Art of Robert Wilson 7 Baudrillard, Modernism, and Postmodernism 8 “Apocalyptic”? “Negative”? “Pessimistic”?: Baudrillard, Virilio, and Technoculture 9 Baudrillard, Giorno, Viola and the Technologies of Radical Illusion 10 Zurbrugg’s Complaint, or How an Artist Came to Criticize a Critic’s Criticism of the Critics