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  1. Jean Baudrillard (French: [ʒɑ̃ bodʁijaʁ], UK: / ˈ b oʊ d r ɪ j ɑːr /, US: / ˌ b oʊ d r i ˈ ɑːr /, ; 27 July 1929 – 6 March 2007) was a French sociologist, philosopher and poet, with interest in cultural studies.

  2. Apr 22, 2005 · Jean Baudrillard. First published Fri Apr 22, 2005; substantive revision Wed Dec 18, 2019. Associated with postmodern and poststructuralist theory, Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) is difficult to situate in relation to traditional and contemporary philosophy. His work combines philosophy, social theory, and an idiosyncratic cultural metaphysics ...

  3. Simulacra and Simulation (French: Simulacres et Simulation) is a 1981 philosophical treatise by the philosopher and cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard, in which he seeks to examine the relationships between reality, symbols, and society, in particular the significations and symbolism of culture and media involved in constructing an ...

  4. Apr 29, 2024 · Jean Baudrillard (born July 29, 1929, Reims, France—died March 6, 2007, Paris) was a French sociologist and cultural theorist whose theoretical ideas of “hyperreality” and “simulacrum” influenced literary theory and philosophy, especially in the United States, and spread into popular culture.

  5. Feb 26, 2018 · In a society dominated by production, Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) argues, the difference between use-value and exchange-value has some pertinence. Certainly, for a time, Marx was able to provide a relatively plausible explanation of the growth of capitalism using just these categories.

  6. from Jean Baudrillard, Selected Writings, ed. Mark Poster (Stanford; Stanford University Press, 1988), pp.166-184. The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth--it is the truth which conceals that there is none.

  7. Jun 23, 2023 · A transdisciplinary thinker, Jean Baudrillard could be described as a philosopher, critical theorist, and sociologist—and at the same time none of these. At different times in his life, he would label himself a pataphysician, situationist, even “abreactionary.”

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