A couple of additions to the links. Two sites produced by Cprobes: A Lacanian/ Zizekian glossary
and a page of Baudrillard links
Here, for no other reason than to fill up space, is an extract from one of the Baudrillard links:
'I went in search of astral America, not social and cultural America, but the America of the empty, absolute freedom of the freeways, not the deep America of mores and mentalities, but the America of desert speed, of motels and mineral surfaces. I looked for it in the speed of the screenplay, in the indifferent reflex of television, in the film of days and nights projected across an empty space, in the marvellously affectless succession of signs, images, faces, and ritual acts on the road; looked for what was nearest to the nuclear and enucleated universe, a universe which is virtually our own, right down to its European cottages'.