In  1976, Jean Baudrillard sent this essay to the French magazine Critique, of which Michel Foucault was an editor. Foucault was asked to reply, but remained silent. Oublier Foucault (1977) made Baudrillard instantly infamous in France. It was a devastating revisitation of Foucault’s recent History of Sexuality and of his entire œuvre and also an attack on those philosophers, like Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, who believed that ‘desire’ could be revolutionary. In Baudrillard’s eyes, desire and power were interchangeable, so desire had no place in Foucault’s work. There is no better introduction to Baudrillard’s polemical approach to culture than these pages where he dares Foucault to meet the challenge of his own thought. First published in 1987 in America with a reverse dialogue with Sylvere Lotringer : Forget Baudrillard. “Forget Baudrillard” is a re-evaluation, by Baudrillard in the present, of his lesser known early works as a post-Marxian thinker. How did he get here from there? In this conversation, Lotringer presses Baudrillard to explain how he arrived at the extrapolationist theories he is best known for from their bases in 19th and early 20th century social and anthropological works of Karl Marx, Marcel Mauss and Emil Durkheim.