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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Jean Baudrillard was born 27 July 1929 in France and trained as a sociologist before turning his attention to the strange new world of mass media and consumer culture. His analyses of technological communication and contemporary life led him to formulate concepts like hyperreality — the condition in which representations and simulations become more meaningful than the real things they once pointed to. He wrote prolifically across subjects from consumerism to aesthetics to Western foreign policy, producing works including "Simulacra and Simulation" in 1981 and the provocatively titled "The Gulf War Did Not Take Place" in 1991. Though frequently labeled a postmodernist and post-structuralist, he resisted both tags, carving out his own path through the philosophical landscape. He died 6 March 2007, leaving behind a body of work that diagnosed the vertigo of living in an image-saturated age.