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Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard (/ˌboʊdriːˈɑːr/; French: [ʒɑ̃ bodʁijaʁ]; 27 July 1929 – 6 March 2007) was a French sociologist, philosopher, cultural theorist, political commentator, and photographer. His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and specifically post-structuralism.Bio from Wikipedia,... show more



Jean Baudrillard (/ˌboʊdriːˈɑːr/; French: [ʒɑ̃ bodʁijaʁ]; 27 July 1929 – 6 March 2007) was a French sociologist, philosopher, cultural theorist, political commentator, and photographer. His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and specifically post-structuralism.Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Photo by en:User:Europeangraduateschool [CC BY-SA 2.5 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons.

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Birth date: July 20, 1929
Died: March 06, 2007
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LunaLuss
LunaLuss rated it 10 years ago
This was a very interesting book. It discusses the illusion of the existence of an end. Nowadays, we live in a situation in which the end as such cannot happen. The end fades away with time because we are moving in circles rather than in a linear manner, and this situation has devastating consequenc...
The Review Man
The Review Man rated it 11 years ago
Baudrillard takes on what would later become the digital world, and it ain't pretty. As Marx is to the obscenity of the commodity, so is Baudrillard to the ecstasy of communication. Baudrillard contends that our preoccupation has shifted to the overexposure of the transparency of the world: as such ...
The Review Man
The Review Man rated it 11 years ago
I've been meaning to read this for a long time. Baudrillard's ideas have always struck me as incredibly sensible in the (at times, very stupid) world we live in.
Lotus wild over sakura
Lotus wild over sakura rated it 15 years ago
Jean Baudrillard gets better with every word. No one has ever clarified seduction with such refinement and eloquence.“For nothing can be greater than seduction, than seduction itself; not even the order that destroys it". Baudrillard in this text pose a challenge to the psychoanalytical quest...
Book Addled
Book Addled rated it 16 years ago
Not so much a review as an illustration of why I like his thinking so much. A couple of excerpts from his book:If we were able to view the Borges fable in which the cartographers of the Empire draw up a map so detailed that it ends up covering the territory exactly (the decline of the Empire witness...
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