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New third edition!

This is a monumental and extensive work from someone who is arguably the most well-versed scholar of Baudrillard, Deleuze & Laruelle in the German-speaking world, Achim Szepanski, the original founder of Mille Plateaux, Force Inc Music Works and NON. This book is dedicated to Jean Baudrillard, who would be described by Achim as the most radical and advanced stimmung in Philosophy. Through this comprehensive and devouring analysis of Baudrillard’s work, the author presents a gripping account of their own philosophy; alongside his magnum opus Die Ekstasie der Spekulation, this book, In the Delirium of the Simulation, provides the strongest case for what might be called, in light of his passing, Szepanskism or Szepanskian Economics.

ISBN: 978-9925-8156-5-4 EPUB version: November 2025

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Note from the Editor

As time passed since the loss of our friend, Achim Szepanski, we found ourselves revisiting this book, and we invested time in refining some parts of certain texts, and looking at the translations again. We decided to include three other texts which elaborate in various directions, and we organized a new afterword by Alessandro Sbordoni, which asks what a Szepanskism might be. Lastly, it felt appropriate to draw up a foreword, which helps position the book within a broader context, as well as paying respects to the author's life.

About the author

Szepanski was a force of his own, he was a stomach full of caustic acid within which the entire canon of Marxism, classical, post and adjacent, has been dissolved. His education was in Finance, yet his legacy was in Music, once a prominent record store autist in Frankfurt, he changed the world of music as we know it through his many projects, of which Mille Plateaux and Force Inc Music Works were the most renowned. Mixing Baudrillard with Finance, and Music with Non-Philosophy, he forged an entirely unique and fascinating position on Marxism.