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Jean Baudrillard

French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist (1929-2007) · France · Academics · Died at 77

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He argued the Gulf War was a media spectacle rather than a war, and that we live in a world where simulations have replaced reality - ideas that made him the philosopher of choice for anyone trying to explain why nothing feels quite real anymore.

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2007Died6 March 20071987“The Marxist critique is only a critique of capital, a critique coming from the heart of the middle and classes, for which Marxism has served for a century as a latent ideology….”In their wordsCanadian Journal of Political and Social Theory 15 (1987) "When Bataille Attacked the Metaphysical Principle of Economy"

“There are cultures that can only picture their origins and not their ends. Some are obsessed by both.”In their wordsChapter 1

“A series of accidents creates a positively lighthearted state.”In their wordsChapter 4

“One day, we shall stand up and our backsides will remain attached to our seats.”In their wordsCool Memories (1987, trans. 1990)

1986“Yet there is a certain solitude like no other - that of the man preparing his meal in public on a wall, or on the hood of his car, or along a fence, alone.”In their words"New York" (p. 15)

1983“The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is already reproduced, the hyper-real.”In their wordsSimulations (1983), New York: Semiotext, p. 146

1929Born27 July 1929

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  1. The Marxist critique is only a critique of capital, a critique coming from the heart of the middle and classes, for which Marxism has served for a century as a latent ideology….

    1987, Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory 15 (1987) "When Bataille Attacked the Metaphysical Principle of Economy", Own words

  2. There are cultures that can only picture their origins and not their ends. Some are obsessed by both.

    1987, Chapter 1, Own words

  3. Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.

    1987, Chapter 3, Own words

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About this person

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.

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France
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1929 to 2007 · aged 77

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