Baudrillard thought The Matrix made "an embarrassing error" in its caricatured contrast between the simulated and the real, ...

The French critic and provocateur Jean Baudrillard, whose theories about consumer culture and the manufactured nature of reality were intensely discussed both in rarefied philosophical circles and in ...

The death Tuesday in Paris of French theoretician Jean Baudrillard prompted some unusual Internet postings, including “Baudrillard’s Death Did Not Happen,” “Jean Baudrillard did not take place,” ...

Jean Baudrillard, a French philosopher and sociologist, wrote dozens of books. But his ideas may have found their biggest platform in the movie The Matrix. Baudrillard died Tuesday at the age of 77.

The death of the 77-year-old French thinker Jean Baudrillard — best known for the flamboyant title of his 1991 screed, The Gulf War Did Not Take Place, and the salute to his doubts about reality in ...

*Gosh, Baudrillard is dead. That's a loss. He was always my favorite among that crowd – he was the one who thought most like a science fiction writer. Baudrillard, a sociologist by training, is ...

AT SOME point in his career—neither date nor time being important—Jean Baudrillard took a large red cloth, draped it over a chair in his apartment, and sat on it. He may have smoked or thought for a ...

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