Jean Baudrillard
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist (1929–2007)
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French sociologist who convinced the world that reality is basically a simulation. Built his fame on hyperreality and media critique across essays on everything from consumerism to the Gulf War, though he spent half his time rejecting the postmodernist label people stuck on him.
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Jean Baudrillard was a French sociologist and philosopher with an interest in cultural studies. He is best known for his analyses of media, contemporary culture, and technological communication, as well as his formulation of concepts such as hyperreality. Baudrillard wrote about diverse subjects, including consumerism, critique of economy, social history, aesthetics, Western foreign policy, and popular culture. Among his best-known works are Forget Foucault (1977), Seduction (1978), Simulacra and Simulation (1981), America (1986), and The Gulf War Did Not Take Place (1991). His work is frequen…
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