reveals the first page of the short essay "On Nihilism." 4 It was perhaps Peter Halley more than any other American Simulationist painter who triumphed Baudrillard's conceptualization of hyperreality in relation to day-glo colours. And, as he wryly notes, Baudrillard dashed the hopes of Halley by distancing himself from claims on him.  But it wasn't only Simulationist painters who received a cold critical shoulder. As Paul Hegarty heard in a recent interview with Baudrillard (April 2003; in his book Jean Baudrillard: Live Theory , London: Continuum, 2004), "the last ones were those 'symbiotic' artists. They kept pestering me, saying, 'but you must love what we're doing. I said, 'hang on, this is not acceptable'."