French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist (1929–2007)
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.
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…
Sourced, dated quotes from Jean Baudrillard
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….
There are cultures that can only picture their origins and not their ends. Some are obsessed by both.
Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.
A series of accidents creates a positively lighthearted state.
There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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